A Title IV complaint filed by the Durham-based Southern Coalition for Social Justice on behalf of the North Carolina Latin Kings with the US Justice Department. argues that the Greensboro Police Department "has systematically discriminated against and harassed" the group since its formation in 2005 "because of their race, color or national origin."
A press release issued today by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice goes on to say that "evidence shows that the GPD's anti-Latino bias causes it to intentionally target ALKQN members for unjustified harassment, to bring baseless charges against them, and to subject them to unlawful and discriminatory traffic stops, non-consensual searches, and false arrests often involving the use of excessive force. GPD officers have visited [Latin Kings] members' workplaces and residences without investigatory purposes, causing members to lose their jobs and homes."
Jorge Cornell of the Latin Kings, the Rev. Nelson Johnson and Anita Earls, executive director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, will appear at a press conference tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. at the Beloved Community Center. Earls served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the US Justice Department under President Clinton.
The press release indicates that the complaint was filed with the Justice Department on Oct. 30.
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