SACRAMENTO, CALIF.
Racial profiling hit
Several hundred protesters rallied on the Capitol steps in
Sacramento, Calif., on June 18 calling for an end to racial
profiling and the epidemic of murders of Latinos and African
Americans at the hands of police in California and
nationwide.
The rally was called by the California State Conference of
the NAACP and was sponsored by a number of unions and
progressive organizations, including AFSCME, the American
Civil Liberties Union, Justice for Janitors, Sacramento
Veterans Resource Center and the International Action
Center.
Nelson Rivers, national field director of the NAACP, told
the crowd that there was a conspiracy to sentence people of
color to fill the new prisons-for-profit system. "Why is it
that 78 percent of prison time is done by people of color in
this country?" he asked.
--Bill Hackwell
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