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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gestures as he speaks to members of the community during an interfaith service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church where The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014, in Atlanta. AP / David Goldman
Last Updated Dec 8, 2014 1:45 PM EST
Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Justice Department's release of its long-awaited revised racial profiling guidance for federal law enforcement on Monday.
In 2003, the Justice Department issued its first racial profiling guidance under former Attorney General John Ashcroft. That guidance banned profiling based on race and ethnicity, but granted exceptions for national security and border protection. Civil rights groups considered the exceptions a kind of permission to discriminate especially against Muslims in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The newly revised guidance will expand the characteristics it protects -- beyond race and ethnicity -- to include bans on profiling on the basis of gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and general identity.
"We can't afford to profile, to do law enforcement on the basis of stereotypes," Holder said Monday at an event in Northern Virginia.
The guidance applies to federal law enforcement officers and also to state and local officers involved in federal law enforcement tasks. But the new guidance does continue to allow certain exceptions for the Department of Homeland Security.
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The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that there will be exceptions for its work in screening at the borders and in transportation settings. Other exceptions have been carved out for U.S. Border Patrol interdiction activities in the vicinity of the border and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) interdiction activities at ports of entry. Secret Service "protective activities" are also excluded from the new guidelines.
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MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com)U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said there is now an opportunity for great changes in relationships between the police and the people.
The key is not to blow that chance.
The Attorney General was in Memphis Tuesday meeting with community leaders and speaking at an event in Midtown.
He said it is time to change police policies and procedures. It is time for the police and the folks on the street to give a little mutual respect.
"Make no mistake out of the tragedies of the past months and weeks comes an opportunity for this great nation that we must not, as we have too often done in the past, squander," Holder said.
Holder was talking about events in New York, Cleveland, and especially Ferguson.
Police acted, people died, and other folks are now reacting.
It is time for change, Holder said.
He has just instituted tougher restrictions on racial profiling that all federal law enforcement agencies must follow.
"It's imperative we take every possible action to ensure strong and sound policing practices. We must instill the absolute highest standards of professionalism as well as integrity," Holder said.
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Holder Says Now Is The Time For Change Between Police & Citizens
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com)--U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says it's time for all communities to ensure they have proper police standards.
Holder spent most of the day in Memphis meeting privately with law enforcement at the Hattiloo Theatre in Midtown.
His talk of tougher restrictions on racial profiling made news just yesterday, but today he made it clear the events and protests of the last few weeks have affected him.
Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong says he's noticed.
"They have their hands up saying 'don't shoot.' We are a city, and will remain a city and police department, that says while your hands are up, when you are begging us not to shoot, our arms are extended out to you and will stay extended until you embrace us," said Armstrong.
Nobody said anything like that in Ferguson. And the power of those words come from a man who was born and raised in Memphis.
"I am a product of this city," said Armstrong.
For U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, Toney Armstrong was a tough act to follow. But the police director's message was one Holder agreed with.
"Trust in the system and compliance with the law must begin not with the fear of arrest or even incarceration, but with respect for the institutions that guide our democracy," said Holder.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton wants to see a law that requires the governor to immediately appoint a special prosecutor whenever there is a shooting involving a police officer to avoid any potential conflicts.
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