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Scalia allowed racial profiling
Sacramento Bee ^ | February 15, 2016 | Kevin R. Johnson

Posted on 02/15/2016 6:17:03 PM PST by artichokegrower

Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Justice Antonin Scalia was often described as the intellectual anchor of the court’s conservative wing. After his death, many commentators are reviewing his body of work, notably his interpretations of the Constitution, as well as his acerbic attacks on his colleagues’ opinions and angry dissents, such as in the gay marriage cases.

He also leaves a legacy on a matter critically important to daily criminal law enforcement across the nation. Deadly encounters of people of color with law enforcement regularly make the news, including deaths in Ferguson, Baltimore and Cleveland that have led to sporadic outbursts of unrest.

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The officers found crack cocaine and arrested the men. The defendants later argued that the traffic violation was only a pretext for a stop based on race – thus violating the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures.


Maybe these cops were tired of seeing what crack was doing to the black communities and acted accordingly.

1 posted on 02/15/2016 6:17:03 PM PST by artichokegrower
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2 posted on 02/15/2016 6:18:42 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: artichokegrower

Profiling is a survival tool. This is why the left wants to deprive you of it.


3 posted on 02/15/2016 6:19:06 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: artichokegrower

Justices don’t ALLOW anteing they are supposed to interpret.


4 posted on 02/15/2016 6:20:35 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: artichokegrower

The Sacramento Bee REEKS of the leftwing Agenda.


5 posted on 02/15/2016 6:20:40 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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I wonder how many blacks would be “profiled” dressed in a suit and acting like gentlemen...


6 posted on 02/15/2016 6:24:24 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Looks like a duck, acts like a duck.......


7 posted on 02/15/2016 6:27:20 PM PST by thinden
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To: artichokegrower

Quotas in college admissions and employment are discriminatory profiling.


8 posted on 02/15/2016 6:28:44 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: artichokegrower

No, Scalia did not...he allowed CRIMINAL profiling. Liberal progressives love to excuse the groups of people they trap on their reservations so they make their false claim.


9 posted on 02/15/2016 6:30:02 PM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: artichokegrower

Kevin R. Johnson is the Dean of Law at UC Davis and served as a clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the most leftist judge in the 9th Circus. LOL!


10 posted on 02/15/2016 6:30:15 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: artichokegrower

Racial profiling is Common Sense-—yes, it is illegal if there is no reasonable cause for the search or whatever....but when the “killer” is described as “Black” it is a waste of time and resources to stop every white guy in the area.

Common Sense (Reason) is being eliminated from Just Law and Right Reason is ESSENTIAL to Just Law. They are eliminating the use of the Mind in solving crimes or preventing crimes......and it is on purpose, to create chaos and crises for totalitarianism. They want the good guys DEAD because if they DON’T profile, they are dumb and will get killed.

Discrimination is an essential part of life and Survival. ALL smart people profile or they don’t make it to adulthood..


11 posted on 02/15/2016 6:33:10 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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Profiling is a survival tool. This is why the left wants to deprive you of it.

It's a very sad fact that many cities across the country are semi-war zones held hostage by violent black criminals. Profiling is necessary to control black criminals. Many of the same people who say we should profile Muslim immigrants say we shouldn't profile blacks because blacks are American citizens.

I say: the constitution is not a suicide pact. It's unfortunate, but black males should be profiled due to the staggering amount of crime they commit. Public safety comes before allowing lawlessness.

12 posted on 02/15/2016 6:33:17 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: artichokegrower

Profiling works!!!


13 posted on 02/15/2016 6:33:21 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: 2banana

Isn’t Black Lives Matter profiling?...assume your automatically a victim because of your race is just as much profiling as assuming anything else because of your race

Assuming white privilege is also profiling... you have no basis to make any assumptions about my life based on my race


14 posted on 02/15/2016 6:34:47 PM PST by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriot%s are in rebellion... teach him why)
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He also leaves a legacy on a matter critically important to daily criminal law enforcement across the nation. Deadly encounters of people of color with law enforcement regularly make the news, including deaths in Ferguson, Baltimore and Cleveland that have led to sporadic outbursts of unrest.
7 police officers killed on duty during the last 6 days
15 posted on 02/15/2016 6:36:00 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: MarvinStinson

Yes, more liberal lies. Scalia was not a supporter of racial profiling — he was a supporter of CRIME profiling. But Democrat-voting, minority criminals are not criminals, are they???

The Sac Bee is just another liberal, lie-printing waste of newsprint that my dog will not even poop on.


16 posted on 02/15/2016 6:37:17 PM PST by EagleUSA
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I wonder how many blacks would be "profiled" dressed in a suit and acting like gentlemen...

The Left doesn't think that the suit makes the man.

AMERICAN CRIME STORY'S O.J. RETELLING IS A DEVASTATING TALE ABOUT POLITICIZING JUSTICE(BY INKOO KANGTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2016)

Eight black women serve on the Simpson jury, and the lead lawyers' efforts to win their hearts and minds make for the show's most thoughtful and provocative scenes. Based on the first six episodes, it's not clear what this Cochran thinks of his client's possible guilt. Highly practical yet deeply embittered, the attorney is determined to use his powers of sincere showboating and media manipulation to convince the jury that Simpson is just another hardworking black man persecuted by the police - and it's time for the jury to fight back on his behalf. There's a personal stake for Cochran, too: The loss of O.J. to prison would amount to one less African-American hero in the world for the lawyer's young daughters, who have to watch their father handcuffed and bent over the hood of his car in his Sunday best by a white cop who doesn't like the idea of a black man driving a fancy car through an affluent neighborhood.

The show occasionally strikes a condescending note when it portrays the jury as gullible pawns to Cochran's church-inflected mellifluousness. But there's no doubt that the real-life lawyer's words landed where they needed to. In O.J.: Made in America, ESPN's upcoming eight-hour documentary about the trial, one juror confesses that she chose to acquit Simpson as retaliation for Rodney King.


17 posted on 02/15/2016 6:40:56 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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Scandal-Plagued Kevin Johnson Won’t Run Again

sexual assault charge

Another Cosby-Cllnton wanabe. I believe Da Mayor was always pushing for a strong-mayor city government because he wanted to set up a Chicago-style city. He's a close friend and associate of Van Jones. IIRC Johnson virtually ordered city employees to read Van Jones books.

As for the Bee.. the best and brightest Bee brains were among the first (within hours) to blame us for 9/11 saying that we don't try to understand the rest of the world.. so we share the bland that they have to communicate with us that way.

18 posted on 02/15/2016 6:41:15 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: artichokegrower

More Liberal Word Games

“Profiling” is just a liberal label calculated to make common sense and good police work sound like something unjust and prejudicial.

The same way they have managed to twist the meaning of “discriminating” from having and exercising good judgement to making an unfair evalusation.

Heck - they have even managed to convince an entire generation that making a sound judgement is a bad thing and being non-judgemental is a good thing.


19 posted on 02/15/2016 6:44:26 PM PST by Iron Munro (WE MAY BE PARANOID BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY AREN'T REALLY AFTER US)
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“Scalia allowed racial profiling”....because Scalia was logical.


20 posted on 02/15/2016 6:52:08 PM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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