"Although the majority did not explain its decision, Justice Brett Kavanaugh tried to muster a defense in a solo concurrence whose reasoning crumbled upon scrutiny. Kavanaugh insisted that ICE agents may use a person's apparent ethnicity as a relevant factor when deciding whether to arrest them. But he assured readers that agents may use ethnicity only in combination with other, nonracial factors when deciding whom to target."
"In 1997, members of the New York Police Department tortured a prisoner named Abner Louima. During the process, it was alleged, one of the cops shouted, "It's Giuliani time!" That linked the torture to then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's hardbar approach to law enforcement. Now, we have a slightly less appalling, but no less egregious new piece of law enforcement jargon: Kavanaugh Stops."
In 1997, New York Police Department officers tortured a prisoner named Abner Louima, and an officer reportedly shouted 'It's Giuliani time!', linking the brutality to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's hardline policing. A new law-enforcement term, 'Kavanaugh Stops', refers to immigration stops authorized by a recent Supreme Court decision that permits ICE to use a person's apparent ethnicity as a factor. Justice Brett Kavanaugh asserted that ethnicity may be used only alongside nonracial indicators and that questioning would be brief for lawful residents. Factual records show ICE agents violently harassing and detaining American citizens for extended periods because they were Latino. The agency has increasingly engaged in open racial profiling.
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