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Graham told the CBC he did not agree with the findings.
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PROVIDENCE -- The Central Falls soccer team was searched by Coventry police last week because most of the boys were black or Hispanic. A number of speakers made that charge today at a State House press conference hosted by a variety of Latino groups and Providence state Rep. Joseph Almeida.
“Racial profiling will stop now,” Ramon Martinez, executive director of Progreso Latino, said. “We do not tolerate this illegal practice. Racial discrimination must end in Rhode Island. We will not accept this immoral conduct.”
Today's meeting attracted elected minority officials and members of the NAACP, Progreso Latino, the Urban League, the Hispanic Ministry Association, Immigrants in Action, the Rhode Island Mexican Association and the Black and Latino political action committees. The emotionally-charged event was the second in two days to respond to the incident in which members of the Central Falls soccer team were publicly searched by Coventry police last Thursday.
Parents and community activists met at Central Fall High School yesterday to voice their displeasure. An official from the Rhode Island Interscholastic League called on both sides to come together to learn from the incident, though he didn't outline a specific plan of action.
During today's meeting, the officials were more specific.
Almeida, a Democrat, called today for the reactivation of the Select Commission on Race and Police Community Relations. The commission, which has been defunct for about a year, addressed issues such as racial profiling and discrimination and other matters regarding race relations between police and the community.
Martinez, of Progreso Latino, went further. He presented a four-point plan of action that includes reviving the race relations commission, mandating and sustaining an interscholastic study commission, passing legislation to direct Rhode Island schools to include ethics as part of their curriculum and creating a Minority Caucus Advisory Council that would develop, monitor and evaluate a list of legislative bills that impact minority communities each year.
After a soccer match last week, about 20 members of the Coventry football team accused the Central Falls players of stealing cell phones and iPods from their locker room. The soccer coach searched his boys’ items and found nothing.
Then the police arrived, and with the coach’s permission, officers took the boys off the bus and searched their belongings. A crowd of Coventry fans and athletes watched the incident, which many Central Falls players said was humiliating.
The search didn't turn up anything. The Coventry High School principal said he believes a Coventy student is responsible, though the Coventry police haven't found the items or identified a suspect. And while authorities initially said that as many as nine cell phones or iPods were stolen, the police now say that just three items -- two cell phones and an iPod Nano -- are missing.
Coventry Police Chief Brian O’Rourke said yesterday that police didn't single out the boys, but rather responded to a report of a theft. They would have searched a team from anywhere, he said.
O’Rourke said the Police Department is reviewing the steps it took that day to see if something could have been done better. Perhaps the search could have been conducted in another way, he said. He disputed the number of people who had gathered around the bus and said that the police brought the boys to the other side of the bus to search their belongings, and would not have put them in a dangerous situation posed by an unruly crowd as some have described.
Anna Cano Morales, the president of the Central Falls Board of Trustees, the panel that acts as a school board for the state-run school system, said yesterday that schools have to address the issue of race.
“This is a wakeup call. This is a bigger issue going on everywhere," she said. "We can no longer accept that this is normal because we are Latino. This is behavior that is blatantly discriminating and unacceptable.”
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