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How the PSNI encourages racism

category antrim | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Wednesday November 22, 2006 23:14author by clodagh

Here's how the PSNI initiates racism in communities.

Heres how the PSNI initiates and instills racism in a community.

Take south belfast, the PSNI have been visiting local store keepers within the ormeau rd area recently warning of foreign looking people, possibly eastern european looking types passing fake currency. So they encourage shopkeepers and shop staff to monitor foreign looking people closely, this enables and legitimises racism, enabling racist attitudes to foreign looking people who may just be mixed race, such as refusing to serve foreign looking people, refusing to accept currency off foreign looking people even though staff have the technology to detect fake currency, many racists don't use this and just take the opportunity to refuse service to ethnic minorities.


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