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Dutch border police told to stop ethnic profiling
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64647272
Apparently all it takes is a court order for a European country to not be racist.
So Dutch border police have been told by the courts to stop ethnic profiling… Hey, I wonder, can we do Belgium next?
Whaddaya say, @EU_Commission, given you’re headquartered there and all? You down with the racial profiling being carried out at the borders?
Any thoughts, @FRA?
Any local politicians/MEPs want to take this on?
Maybe someone should create a web site where we list which EU countries carry out racial profiling and publish the experiences of people who have been racially profiled at EU borders. 
Maybe we can use the fediverse to gather those experiences…
Here, I’ll start:
I was racially profiled by Belgian border police two weeks ago at Brussels Airport.
@aral @EU_Commission @FRA I couldn’t agree more. In #Belgium conditions for refugees, undocumented migrants and homeless of all nationalities are atrocious.
@aral @EU_Commission @FRA
Hi, I am just writing a text about AI today, is there any source for AI based racial profiling in EU?
@ChristophKappes @EU_Commission @FRA I don’t personally know of any but I’ll boost your post in case anyone else does.
@aral "it has been [ 2 ] weeks since since someone was racially profiled at [Brussels Airport \/]"
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:(
@leadegroot Oh, likely it’s been far less than that.
I have no reason to believe my experience or that of the two Belgian citizens of Turkish birth who were in there with me or the other Brown and Black folks in the “waiting room” was a coincidence.
Belgian border police are racially profiling EU citizens as a matter of course on a daily basis. This is policy.
@aral @EU_Commission @FRA as a Belgian citizen I can only say: sorry you had to go through that! 
As usually, governments need some 'motivation' to get change in progress (be that from a higher instance like EU or from local initiatives). I hope this profiling nonsense gets banished soon (but now that our Dutch neighbours start doing the same I'm sure it will get on the radar soon enough).
@aral @EU_Commission @FRA in Ireland Irish Travellers Minceiri have been logged onto An Gardaí Siochanna (Irish Police) pulse system as young as 6 weeks old. #EthnicProfiling at its worst. Yet, from a health perspective Irish Travellers are calling for an ethnic identifier in Maternity Hospitals because of conditions like Galactosemia, and a need to monitor the non delivery of culturally appropriate accommodation. The problem then is the crossover between #EthnicProfiling and #EthnicIdentifying
@aral, oh, tell me the fun I have with my Uzbekistan passport :)
@sardo If you’re up for it, please tell everyone. Let’s shine a light on this bigotry so we can hopefully relegate it to the dustbin of history: