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As National Urban League Opens Annual Conference -- A Conversation on Racial Profiling

(July 30, 2008) The National Urban League is opening its annual conference today in Orlando. The League focuses on a wide variety of issues important to the African-American community, including allegations of racial profiling by law enforcement agencies. Attorney Juan Lynum is a local community leader who says he has experienced profiling. He filed a complaint two years ago after an Orlando police officer stopped him for a broken headlight. The officer was cleared. Lynum's mother, Orlando City Commissioner Daisy Lynum, is still under an ethics investigation for calling the Orlando Police Chief during the stop. Juan Lynum said at the time that the incident sould spark a city-wide conversation about racial profiling. Two years later, 90.7's David Pitman asked him if that conversation ever happened. **Editor's Note** The Orlando Police Department and the Orange County Sheriff's Office both have written policies against racial profiling. The agencies say they specifically train officers not to stop people on the basis of race.

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