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ACLU files suit over alleged racial profiling of students
- 10-14-2011
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By Megan O'Neil/Los Angeles Times
The ACLU of Southern California filed suit Thursday against
Glendale Unified administrators and three law enforcement agencies, alleging
that about 55 Latino high school students were illegally detained, searched and
interrogated in what the civil rights organization called "a textbook case
of racial profiling." The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los
Angeles, alleges that the Hoover High School students were rounded up at lunch
on Sept. 24, 2010, detained for at least an hour in two classrooms and
intimidated and frisked by Glendale and Los Angeles police officers. (more...)
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