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Re:Welcome, ACLU by marwatk on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:36AM (#13532111)
I'm not 100% sure what all the ACLU does so correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought they were a bunch of lawyers? What can they do for Chicago or people shot by police? Who could they sue and for what to fix those problems?

Isn't this like complaining about Habitat for Humanity not doing enough to prevent forest fires?

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Re:Welcome, ACLU by mtalantikite on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:02PM (#13532506)
The profiling and killing of black men by police is most certainly a civil rights issue.

The NYC division of the ACLU has done work on the illegal and racist stop and frisk law that was in place here, for example.

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Re:Welcome, ACLU by Govannon on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:08PM (#13532583)
Not exactly. THe ACLU actually does work in the area being discussed [0]. I believe the criticism is that people did not donate for that reason, not that the ACLU doesn't do anything about it; the ACLU does quite a bit.

[0] https://www.aclu.org/issues/racial-justice

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Re:Welcome, ACLU by bbctol on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:08PM (#13532589)
They'd sue the police department. The ACLU sues police departments for violations of civil rights constantly.
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