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Miami-area Police Used Black Men's Mug Shots for Target Practice
newsmax ^ | Jan. 16, 2015 | Melissa Clyne

Posted on 01/16/2015 6:24:14 AM PST by PROCON

The North Miami Beach Police Department is denying accusations of racial profiling for using mug shots of black men during target practice for their snipers, NBC South Florida reports.

"Our policies were not violated," Chief J. Scott Dennis said. "There is no discipline forthcoming from the individuals who were involved with this."

When a National Guard unit arrived at a Medley, Florida, shooting range for its annual weapons qualifications training, one of its members was shocked to see that five bullet-riddled mug shots of black men left behind included her brother, from his arrest 15 years earlier in connection to a drag race that left two people dead.

The North Miami Beach Police Department snipers uses the same shooting range as the Guardsmen.

National Guard Sgt. Valerie Deant got very upset and phoned her brother, Woody Deant, to tell him he was being used for police target practice.

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KEYWORDS: appropriate; florida; mugshots; northmiamibeach; pcpolice; police; soundsperfect
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nice find.


21 posted on 01/16/2015 6:40:34 AM PST by PROCON (Je suis Charlie Bronson.)
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To: PROCON
...bullet-riddled mug shots of black men left behind included her brother, from his arrest 15 years earlier...

Sounds to me like the department was cleaning out old files and decided to recycle/reuse photos as targets. Seems like a good green policy to me. That of course assumes they worked out the range/scale issues if the prints were not life sized.

22 posted on 01/16/2015 6:45:39 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: PROCON

If Woody Deant actually had a bullet hole in his eye (instead of in the eye of his picture, which is not the same thing in any mind advanced beyond primitive concepts), would he be called No-Eye Deant?


23 posted on 01/16/2015 6:46:47 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Leo Carpathian

Good point. They were just trying to reduce their carbon footprint.


24 posted on 01/16/2015 6:48:01 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: V_TWIN

I wish I had so little to worry about, don’t you? Cops shooting at lifeless zerox paper is cause for alarm? WOW! The whole world has gone crazy!


25 posted on 01/16/2015 6:50:02 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: defconw

It’s like Blood of Tyrants said, they think theres some free $$ in it. eric holder to investigate in 3,2,1.....


26 posted on 01/16/2015 6:53:43 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: SampleMan

My thought, exactly!


27 posted on 01/16/2015 7:01:16 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Crazieman

See multiculturalism is alive and well. What are these people complaining about?


28 posted on 01/16/2015 7:02:09 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: SampleMan

I considered grabbing that pic and sticking a pair of jug ears on it. Then I reconsidered, and decided to just laugh at the mental image instead. Bet it’d sell big, though!


29 posted on 01/16/2015 7:02:49 AM PST by W. (Bureaucracy kills enterprise, and communism doesen't work. Any OTHER bright ideas, 0bama?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s what I was looking for.


30 posted on 01/16/2015 7:07:31 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: V_TWIN

Exactly! Follow the money!


31 posted on 01/16/2015 7:10:41 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: PROCON

The family contacted a lawyer? $$$$ on their minds!


32 posted on 01/16/2015 7:14:21 AM PST by armydawg505
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To: PROCON

What the story doesn’t explain up front is that the actual racial make-up of the Miami police force is multi-culti.


33 posted on 01/16/2015 7:30:43 AM PST by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: PROCON

What the story doesn’t explain up front is that the actual racial make-up of the Miami police force is multi-culti.


34 posted on 01/16/2015 7:30:45 AM PST by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: PROCON
Racial profiling was not a factor in the photos, Dennis said, who noted that the sniper team includes minority officers. He said using mug shots for target practice is a common technique and helps with vital facial recognition drills. White and Hispanic males' photographs are also used, he added.

It helps with "facial recognition skills?" Smells like total BS to me. "Black male, fire, white male, Hispanic male, hold your fire." Regardless , of whether this amounts to racial profiling, it does amount to poor taste and judgment when there are so many alternative training tools that are widely available to serve the same purpose. Indeed, the police officers could have used their own photos for target practice.

35 posted on 01/16/2015 7:39:12 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: SampleMan

That’s racist!


36 posted on 01/16/2015 7:41:33 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: V_TWIN
“The Deant family has contacted a lawyer, Andell Brown.” FOR WHAT???<

Many states have strict "right to privacy laws" that prohibit a person from using another person's image for commercial or business purposes without consent.

37 posted on 01/16/2015 7:41:48 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Old Sarge
As opposed to using pregnant white girls as targets?

I am sure the professional racists out there would have no problems with that.

38 posted on 01/16/2015 7:45:02 AM PST by Mark17 (Weary and worn, facing for sinners, death on the cross, that He might save them from endless loss)
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To: 556x45

A recent study showed that police will hesitate more at shooting black men than whites or asians. Don’t know, maybe that is why they were using the pics.


39 posted on 01/16/2015 7:50:40 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: V_TWIN
“FOR WHAT??”
Why,for the customary aggrieved minority money quest,of course.
40 posted on 01/16/2015 8:05:22 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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