No. It's spelled "Chia."
Posted on 07/08/2006 5:14:44 AM PDT by Ellesu
Strain says he's just trying to find suspects :
St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain's statements about the suspects in a recent quadruple murder near Slidell amount to racial profiling that broadly paints Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans as "thugs" and "trash," the American Civil Liberties Union said in an open letter to the sheriff.
Strain countered that the ACLU is distorting his comments, which he said were intended to warn St. Tammany residents about early signs of post-Katrina "spillover crime" from New Orleans.
The dispute centers on a TV interview Strain gave after four people were shot June 27 near Slidell, allegedly in a botched drug deal in which the two suspects were identified as young black men, one with dreadlocks and one with a "chee wee" hairstyle.
In an interview broadcast on WDSU-TV, Strain said, "I don't want to get into calling people names, but if you're going to walk the streets of St. Tammany Parish with dreadlocks and chee wee hairstyles, then you can expect to be getting a visit from a sheriff's deputy."
In a letter dated Wednesday, the Louisiana office of the ACLU called on Strain to retract the statement, saying that targeting people based on hairstyles commonly worn by African-Americans is "overtly racist" and a civil rights violation.
The ACLU said it has received complaints from Nazarene Christians, who "wear dreadlocks as a religious requirement" and are afraid to step outside their St. Tammany homes for fear of being arrested.
In a letter sent Thursday to the ACLU and made public by the sheriff Friday, Strain said it's basic police work to stop and question anyone who matches the description of a murder suspect.
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The ACLU is an A$$.
Wow, am I out of it. What's a "chee-wee" hairstyle? I bet my kids would know, but they're not around to ask.
What's a chee wee? I searched for "chee wee" but couldn't find an image of it.
Yep... speak the truth and the ACLU has a fit!
Never heard of that "requirement"
If I was that sheriff I would tell the ACLU to shove their letter so far up you-know-where, that it would pop out of their nose.
It is probably also a "religious requirement" that they smoke lots of ganja.
I believe it's the mini-dred hairstyle where you have hair that looks like chee-wees.
The Onion? Scrappleface?
this is a real...SUPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF
The health department ought to outlaw some of these hair styles as a public health hazard. Do they ever get washed?
No. It's spelled "Chia."
"Wow, am I out of it. What's a "chee-wee" hairstyle?"
I have no clue either.
I guess I'm just a middle class clueless white male.
I believe the actions of the New Orleans residents that fled pretty much proved the point of the Sherriff. Everywhere they went crime went up.
Many are still sucking off the govt.,same as they did before.
tell me that's a floormop...
Would the ACLU get involved if the sheriff announced that they were looking for two guys with crew cuts? I think not.
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