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Friday, May 25, 2012

Memorial Day Arrest Quota For Miami Beach



"Are Miami Beach Police planning to arrest 2,000 people during the notorious Memorial Day weekend parties on South Beach? As in they've actually set a quota regardless of whether or not 2,000 deserve to be arrested. To put that in prospective, the record number of arrests over Memorial Day weekend ever in Miami Beach was just over 1,000.

Rumors of such a number emerged this week, but Police Chief Raymond Martinez has denied that his department has set a real quota...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.

Racist Tweets From New Orleans School Psychologist



*Via Huffington Post "The Jefferson Parish school system is investigating Mark Traina after some of his postings -- including "Young Black Thugs who won't follow the law need to be put down not incarcerated. Put down like the Dogs they are!" -- were highlighted by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports." Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss.