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Scares that Care convention and  Original 'Alien' Star Talk 'Alien: Islolation' Video Game Credit:    The new Alien: Isolation game has special bonus levels that allow you to play as the original cast of 1979's Alien, bringing back the characters that launched the long-standing franchise. A new featurette brings the actors all back to discuss their work and their return to this world. Watch as Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, and Sigourney Weaver reunite and share ... Related Links ,  Yaphet Kotto yaphjet Kotto  Returns as Parker  in 'Alien: Isolation' Video Game Trailer   SEGA of America announced today that their upcoming video game Alien: Isolation will feature two bonus missions that include original Alien cast members Yaphet Kotto (Parker), Veronica Cartwright,  Tom Sjeritt  voicing their characters in two bo   The previous Alien game, Aliens: Colonial Marines was, to p...

Credit: www.opensocietyfoundations.org What is ethnic profiling? Ethnic profiling is the use of racial, ethnic, national, or religious characteristics as a way of singling out people for identity or security checks. It refers to law enforcement and security officers making decisions about who is suspicious based on race, ethnicity, or ethnic identity rather than reasonable suspicion. Is profiling legal? Police powers to stop and search vary from place to place. But profiling—the targeting of specific individuals or groups based on appearance—constitutes illegal discrimination under U.S., European, and international law.   Read more >> Source:  http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/explainers/ethnic-profiling-what-it-and-why-it-must-end

Credit: trendhunter.com Police brutality occurs for a number of reasons: the most common is racial discrimination. 89% of the people who died in NYPD custody between the years 1990 and 1994 were African American or Hispanic (Elisha, Joshua & Zenobia, 2010). Some examples of this brutality are the cases involving Rodney King, Oscar Grant III, Patrick Hall and Abner Louima. 59% of all Americans in 1999 agreed that racial discrimination was a major problem. (The Struggle Against Racial Profiling, n.d.) A study was conducted that proved that “minority citizens are stopped by the police more than white citizens but minority driven vehicles are no more likely to have drug paraphernalia than whites’ vehicles” (Lundman, 2008, p.242). Racial discrimination is the main cause of police brutality. The U.S. History Encyclopedia defines police brutality as the use of any force exceeding that reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful police purpose (2006). Most brutality began du...

Credit:  guardianlv.com by Obeydah Chavez Police brutality is not a new topic, it is simply a controversy that has repeatedly come to light in the recent years. With cameras and video recording devices more easily accessible, documentation of these incidents has become more frequent. Yet a large percentage of police misconduct will go un-investigated, with many police officers admitting to turning a blind eye to these types of incidents. Racial profiling is not a new terminology, yet it is something that occurs daily in the United States, becoming almost a normality. The term “driving while black” is a form of racial profiling where law enforcement officers are more likely to stop an African-American under suspicion of possible criminal activity. Arizona’s strict immigration law has allowed law enforcement officers to detain, harass and arrest any Hispanic under the suspicion that they may be an illegal immigrant. These cases are not few and far between, with Hi...

An unidentified man in St. Paul, Minn., videotaped his arrest and reported tasing by two unidentified officers. The man claims that he was sitting in a public space when police, including the one seen here, approached him.     TWIN CITITES DAILY PLANET SCREENSHOT Updated Aug. 29, 9:10 a.m. EDT:  St. Paul Minnesota police issued a statement on their Facebook page defending the arrest of Chris Lollie in January of this year. The statement was reported by the  Minneapolis City Pages. In the statement police say they were called by a private security company because a man had repeatedly entered a private 'employees only' area in a bank. That man, identified as Lollie, refused to leave and refused to cooperate. Here's a portion of the police statement. As is often the case, the video does not show the totality of the circumstances. Our officers were called by private security guards on a man who was trespassing in a private area. The guards reporte...

Credit: www.occupy.com Police officers, security guards, or self-appointed vigilantes  extrajudicially killed  at least 313 African-Americans in 2012, according to  a recent study . This means a black person was killed by a security officer every 28 hours. The report notes that it's possible that the real number could be much higher. The report, entitled "Operation Ghetto Storm," was conducted by the  Malcolm X Grassroots Movement , an antiracist grassroots activist organization. The organization has  chapters  in Atlanta, Detroit, Fort Worth-Dallas, Jackson, New Orleans, New York City, Oakland, and Washington, D.C. It has  a history  of organizing campaigns against police brutality and state repression in black and brown communities. Their study's sources included police and media reports along with other publicly available information. Last year, the organization published  a similar study  showing that a black person is...

Lawsuit alleges brutality, racial slurs from cops at Ferguson protests In this Aug. 16, 2014 file photo, Malik Shabazz, center, president of Black Lawyers for Justice and former chairman of the New Black Panther Party, talks with Col. Ron Replogle, left, and Capt. Ron Johnson during a march with protesters in Ferguson, Mo. / AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Carson, Fi ST. LOUIS  — A federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that police in Ferguson, Mo., and St. Louis County used excessive force and falsely arrested innocent bystanders amid attempts to quell widespread unrest after the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.  The five plaintiffs in the suit in St. Louis include a clinical social worker who said she and her 17-year-old son were roughed up and arrested after not evacuating a McDonald’s quickly enough. They also include a 23-year-old man who said he was shot multiple times with rubber bullets and called racial slurs by police while walki...