East Haven, CT: The Justice Department conducts a civil rights investigation into the police department's allegeded discriminatory policing.

The Justice Department has started a civil rights investigation, and the FBI recently opened a criminal probe. But that has not changed things on Main Street, where restaurants and stores that cater to Hispanics are going out of business.

If the goal of police was to ruin East Haven's Hispanic community, some grudgingly say they have succeeded.

The Justice Department, which started investigating the town last year, is "still looking into alleged discriminatory policing." (It has "identified preliminary concerns... over issues including outdated policies and a lack of clear guidance on the use of force.") And Yale Law School's Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic has filed a suit on behalf of nine immigrants alleging police beatings (and accusing the officers of "using ethnic slurs.")


Father Manship police report:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/12991243/Father-Manship-Police-Report

Links:
http://www.newhavenregister.com/articles/2010/10/26/news/metro/doc4cc7a39fc9df8642541888.txt

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