Training video for Arizona law takes heat - USATODAY.com: In a training video released to Arizona law enforcement officers Thursday, state officials repeatedly discourage racial profiling when enforcing the state's new immigration law — but some Hispanic civil rights groups say some of the instructions constitute a recipe for racial profiling.
In the video, factors such as 'dress,' 'traveling in tandem' and 'significant difficulty communicating in English' are given as clues that a person may be an illegal immigrant.
'This list has obviously been drawn to legitimize racial profiling,' said Foster Maer, senior litigator for LatinoJustice. 'I don't believe the police will approach white people and ask them for their papers because of the way they're dressed.'
