WHAT:           Commission hearing on racial profiling incidents in Los Angeles and elsewhere in California.

WHO:             Commissioners:

•  Timothy Watkins, Executive Director, Watts Labor Community Action Committee

•  Hussam Ayloush, Executive Director, Council on American Islamic Relations - LA

•  Reverend Eric Lee,CEO and President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference

•  Angelica Salas, Executive Director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)

•  Karen Narasaki,Executive Director, Asian American Justice Center

•  Vince Warren,Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights

 

WHY:             Racial and religious profiling is a pervasive problem that affects many communities across the country.  While African American communities have struggled with this issue for generations, profiling also affects a broad range of communities, including Native American, African American, Latino, Arab, Muslim and South Asian communities. Racial and religious profiling humiliates and degrades persons subjected to it, it is unconstitutional and an ineffective law enforcement practice, and it damages community security. This event is co-sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU-SC) and the Council on American Islamic Relations of greater Los Angeles (CAIR-LA).

 

With the option of remaining anonymous, those who have experienced racial profiling first-hand can sign up to testify by contacting Carl Bergquist, CHIRLA Policy Advocate, at (213) 353-1334 or cbergquist@chirla.org