Racism by Police Officials

The FBI arrested a sergeant and four other police officers due to them mistreating, arresting, and detaining latinos. This was occuring in East Haven, Connecticut. The residents of East Haven were victims of an abusive group of police officers, who are suppose to protect and serve. Any resident who happened to be latino was targetted by this group.

East Haven has had problems with the police racially targetting minorities in the past. There have been reports of polices conducting unnecessary raids at local businesses. Also, latinos being beaten and intimidated by the police force.

Other civilians would try to videotape the actions, but they would tell them to stop. They would also intimidate them. They stated that the civilians were  interfering with police investigations in their police records.

Story taken from the NY Times.

This comes to show that racism still exists, we need to fight it, and prevent this from occuring again. At least investigations ensued to catch the culprits. We must always strive to show the public of such abuses, so there is a sense of awareness and more to stop this unacceptable behavior.