Tag Archive for profiling

Trump: ‘We need to start using common sense, do racial profiling like Israel.’

 

Trump tells CBS, “You look at Israel and you look at others, and they do it and they do it successfully. And you know, I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to start using common sense.”

By Reuters

 

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Sunday the United States should consider more racial profiling in law enforcement, after urging harsher policies following last week’s mass shooting in Orlando.

Israel Security staff question Israeli Arab family at Ben-Gurion Airport. – Photo: David Bachar

“I think profiling is something that we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country,” Trump said when asked on CBS whether he supported more profiling of Muslims in America.  Continue Reading »

Jewish-Arab American woman suing airline for racial profiling

A SWAT team forcibly removed an American citizen, Hebshi, 36. The innocent mother of two was held for hours, questioned, arrested and strip searched.

By JTA

 

A Jewish-Arab American woman is suing a U.S. airline and the federal Transportation Security Administration for removing her from an airplane and strip-searching her.

Frontier Airlines - Photo Courtesy by Facebook

Shoshana Hebshi, whose mother is Jewish and father is Saudi Arabian, is suing Frontier Airlines and law enforcement for ethnically targeting her.

A SWAT team forcibly removed Hebshi, 36, an American citizen who lives in Ohio, and two Indian men in handcuffs from Frontier Airline flight 623 after it landed on Sept. Continue Reading »