University of Illinois leaders: It’s racial profiling to question black student about stolen phone

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 University of Illinois leaders: It’s racial profiling to question black student about stolen phone
Kayla Schierbecker - University of Missouri •December 8, 2016
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‘Sanctuary campus’ demand could ‘jeopardize our institution’

University of Illinois students and faculty used a police investigation into a stolen cellphone to pressure the administration to protect students from deportation.

While the UI System balked at the demand to make its campuses into legal sanctuaries for illegal immigrants, the Urbana-Champaign Senate convinced campus police to revisit how they conduct investigations.

The wide-ranging senate resolution approved Monday stems from an Oct. 10 incident in which officers at the Urbana-Champaign flagship campus entered a classroom to search for a stolen cellphone.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/30286/

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University of Illinois leaders: It’s racial profiling to question black student about stolen phone

Summary of story:

1.  Phone reported stolen
2.  Signal of stolen phone traced to a particular classroom
3.  Prof invites cops into room and they ask "who has this model of phone?"
4.  Two students raise hands and offer phones for inspection
5.  One of the phones has serial number of stolen phone
6.  Owner of said phone admits buying phone, knowing it was stolen.

This is not "profiling."  Except that the student, and especially the professor, are black.