racial profiling still exist....
... please dont be fooled by those who says it doesn't.
The photos taken by Jordan Miles’ mother show his face covered with raw, red bruises, his cheek and lip swollen, his right eye swollen shut. A bald spot mars the long black dreadlocks where the 18-year-old violist says police tore them from his head.
Now, 10 days after plainclothes officers stopped him on a street and arrested him after a struggle that they say revealed a soda bottle under his coat, not the gun they suspected, his right eye is still slightly swollen and bloodshot. His head is shaved. The three white officers who arrested him have been reassigned. And his mother says she is considering a lawsuit.
“I feel that my son was racially profiled,” Terez Miles said. “It’s a rough neighborhood; it was after dark. … They assumed he was up to no good because he’s black. My son, he knows nothing about the streets at all. He’s had a very sheltered life, he’s very quiet, he doesn’t know police officers sit in cars and stalk people like that.”
A judge continued the case until Feb. 18 after the officers failed to appear at a hearing Thursday, Miles’ attorney, Kerrington Lewis, said.
The police department is saying little as it investigates and isn’t releasing the officers’ names. Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said that the city is investigating whether the officers’ actions were justified and that if they weren’t, “they will be held accountable for those actions.”
“The incident was very troubling to me, and we’re taking it very seriously,” Ravenstahl told reporters. “It seems as if there was a tremendous amount of force used.”
By the way, Jordan is a studious teenager who plays the viola in his jazz band and orchestra at Pittsburgh’s prestigious Creative and Performing Arts High School.
“Reassigned?” Hair RIPPED out of this teenager’s head? And his jacket only held a soda bottle..not a gun? I’m disgusted…to say the least. Speak on it…
in the south you know where you stand and they dont fucking harrass you...but here?! oh no this is a different type of something.. yo these fucking nypd pigs make you want to disrespect their ass... they make you want to pull their shit from their own holster and put one right between their eyes...i promise you everyday i see the cops fucking harrass and degrade at least three black men... both young and old... its crazy and i just cant get with it... i rather be in atlanta where i am not harrassed... i dont have to worry about my brother, my boyfriend, or any of my close male friends being harrassed...being treated like less than dirt or heck nothing at all... its sickening....somebody need to do something about this nypd pigs.... if i was a black man in ny i would be scared...do we need anymore sean bells, abner louima, jena six, or any other men like them... they need to be fucking stopped..and quickly.
