Racial Profiling Against Hispanics

Racial Profiling Against Hispanics Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. Racial profiling against Hispanics includes people from North American, South American and Central Americans. An example of racial profiling against Hispanics is by the color of our skin, which the majority skin tone (Color) is brown but not all of them, some may be a different color and are Hispanics. Sadly, our identity is defined by the color of our skin and we are targeted and threatened with deportation and thinking that we are all illegal immigrants and discriminating with hurtful words that express that we do not belong here in the United States, even though some were born in the United
In the book “Always Running” written by Luiz J. Rodriguez was about how he got involved in a gang called “Lomas.” He wrote how back in the days in California, when going to the beach it was this trend that was barrio people and the beach people or rephrasing it the surfers against beaners. Barrio people would define a person who would be able to speak Spanish and beach people would be white people and engabachados- Mexicans trying to be white. One day when Luis and his friends, which were Chicharon, Wilo and a person who was referred as “Black-Dog” because he was so dark and the Acuna sisters, which were Herminia and Santita, were hanging out in the beach and heard some bad things coming out of a van that were shouting from the parking area “Fuck you, beaners!, Mexicans suck!”(Rodriguez 65). Us Hispanics do not let that pass and get angry fast, so Black-dog started to shout aloud bad words in Spanish. People who started saying bad things to Luiz and his buddies were police officers from Huntington Beach Police Department. First, they arrested everyone and took them in the department. This quote shows that we must be careful to not trust the police officers and tells us how police officers would racial profile against Hispanics a lot, but no
The police department called “East Haven” located in Connecticut had a huge scandal that involved the Hispanic community in Connecticut. In 2010 Yadanny Garcia was a victim of East Haven Police Department that he did not deserve to go thru, in the article “Latinos Immigrants to sue a Connecticut Police Dept., Asserting Racial Bias” .“Why they were ordering him to the ground, they shocked him three times with a Taser gun, punched him and told him to “go back to your country” (Dolnick). This quote proves that some police officers are racially profiling specific types of races and approach with aggression before talking reasonably and handling the situation calmly. Also some officers prefer actions instead of words. In 2012 three officers and a sergeant were involved from East Haven police that were racial profiling, particularly against Hispanics and were charged with multiple types of felony that they have committed. In the article “An Outrage in East Haven“ that was published in New York Times “The Federal Bureau of investigation arrested a sergeant and three officers on charges of terrorizing the town’s Hispanic neighborhood, stopping and detaining people, searching businesses without cause, beating people in handcuffs, smashing a man’s into a wall”(“An Outrage in East Haven”). This quote proves evidence because