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Police Cars & Helicopter Swarm 3 Black Women Leaving Airbnb

HeadlineMay 09, 2018

In California, the granddaughter of Bob Marley is vowing to sue the Rialto Police Department, after she and two other friends were surrounded by a swarm of police cars and a police helicopter as they were checking out of an Airbnb rental. The three women are all black. The police were dispatched after a white neighbor saw the three women carrying suitcases out of the rental home, and called the police to report a possible burglary. It’s the latest in a series of high-profile incidents of racial profiling and racial discrimination, including two black men being arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks for being inside the coffee shop while they were waiting for a third man to arrive for a business meeting.

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