Suit seeks to halt random searches on Boston Trains. Sweating Black and Brown People - Racial Profiling
Three advocacy groups said they would file a lawsuit to stop the T from stopping people at random to inspect their bags, a first-in-the-nation antiterrorism policy set to begin later this week and intensify during the Democratic National Convention. Members of the groups -- the National Lawyers Guild, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the American Friends Service Committee -- passed out leaflets and buttons that read, "I do not consent to a search" at Downtown Crossing yesterday morning. They say the T's policy does not satisfy the standards for search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, and that police officers will probably single out people of Middle Eastern appearance. [more]