Posted on 01/16/2015 6:24:14 AM PST by PROCON
The North Miami Beach Police Department is denying accusations of racial profiling for using mug shots of black men during target practice for their snipers, NBC South Florida reports.
"Our policies were not violated," Chief J. Scott Dennis said. "There is no discipline forthcoming from the individuals who were involved with this."
When a National Guard unit arrived at a Medley, Florida, shooting range for its annual weapons qualifications training, one of its members was shocked to see that five bullet-riddled mug shots of black men left behind included her brother, from his arrest 15 years earlier in connection to a drag race that left two people dead.
The North Miami Beach Police Department snipers uses the same shooting range as the Guardsmen.
National Guard Sgt. Valerie Deant got very upset and phoned her brother, Woody Deant, to tell him he was being used for police target practice.
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LOL...aren’t range targets black silhouettes on white backgrounds? Oh yeah...that’s raciss
Back in the day we saw these targets change from black on white to blue on white because some moron said it made LEO more apt to shoot a black person.
So how many Smurfs cot capped as a result of your blue racism?
All photos matter
see post 39
Total speculation. But even if true, a review of the website for the North Miami Police Department shows that a significant number of officers are non-white. Use their own photos for target practice rather than using someone’s image without their consent.
You mean “couldn’t” care less. If you “could care less”, it means you could actually care a little more. If you couldn’t care less, you absolutely can’t care any less about the subject matter. Sorry for being a nudge about this.
The study was not speculation, just my opinion.
Dear gr8eman,
Mind you now, that our beloved government agents have pictures of every group of american citizens, as made to target, with the one pictured holding some kind of firearm!
Be they: grandmas, grandpas, men of all colors, women - some with their children, and some children, too ... all in civilian dress and manner, all holding a firearm at those using that target for range time!
It would be a ‘sin’, were I to deny that “some famous thug” was ever used in my revolver range time!
I will consider myself nudged..;)
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