I see our Senator has jumped on the bandwagon with our President, pre-judging events before our authorities - and avoiding comment of dozens of similar events occuring daily throughout the US. How brave and ill-informed!.

Cardin is not ill informed. He is a cheap politician trolling the bottom for votes.
He might be able to sink lower, but it is doubtful.

What will Cardin say about this? The behavior he is helping to incite.

7 CA boys arrested in attack on teen
AP: Mar 30, 2012

PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) - Seven black teens ages 13 -16 were arrested on suspicion of committing a hate crime when they attacked a 15-year-old Hispanic boy while he was walking home from school in Southern CA, according to the LA County Sheriff's Office.

The March 14 beating was captured on video and posted on YouTube, but has since been removed.

The video shows as many as 10 boys surrounding the victim and challenging him to a fight. The suspects then began hitting the teen while others watched.

During the beating, the teens made racially derogatory statements that were captured on the video, Ford said.

After the victim fell to the ground, the assailants kicked him multiple times in the head, knocked out several teeth and left shoe impressions on his skin, Ford said.

The victim was able to get to his feet and escape the onslaught, and will need to undergo dental surgery.

The teens who were arrested were identified from the video, which was discovered by a Palmdale sheriff's deputy and has been retained for evidence.
Police are seeking three more suspects.

Racial hate crimes are disgusting but cheap politicians like Cardin, trying to profit politically are worse.

Yes, he tried to "profit" by introducing a bill in Congress outlawing racial profiling.

Theresa,

If you read his article you will see he is calling the Trayson incident, "racial profiling." That is speculation, not fact at this point and Cardin has no business inflaming the situation. Despicable what he is doing. Will he reference the incident in CA which has much more evidence that it was a racila crime?

Obviously I read it. Nope, he said "has focused national attention on the need to make sure minority communities are protected from hate crimes and racial profiling, a practice that is ineffective in crime prevention, undermines effective law enforcement, and erodes civil rights."

And he's right.

Also, I'm not responding to the rest of your flame-throwing and attempts to make illogical connections. I've seen your other comments on this site. I would not consider you objective about Sen. Cardin's actions, whatever they would be.

This guy is a joke. He got the job as Senator because the Maryland Democrats decided it was "his turn." What he just wrote shows how dangerously shallow his thinking is. Is he accusing the Sanford Police Department of racial profiling? He mentions racial profiling (which he inexplicably defines to include profiling based on religion), but then gives the Trayvon shooting as an example. His bill only addresses racial profiling in law enforcement. Not even the professional race-baiters like Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton or Jesse "HymieTown" Jackson have accused the local police of racial profiling, have they? Isn't the focus on the shooter? How can a US Senator be so reckless and incendiary as to be accusing a local Florida police department of racial profiling when there seems to be no evidence whatsoever to support this?

T,

Was there racial profiling in the in the Trayvon incident?

T,

Was there racial profiling in the Trayvon incident?

Good old "My Friend Ben", always the opportunist.......

Thanks for your vote on Tuesday! Robin Ficker for Congress. I shall work hard for hard working voters!

^ Who is voting for Robin Ficker? Not me. Talk about opportunist!

Then flag his post as inappropriate.

When Cardin gets done stoking racial hatred, what is he going to do about the debt?

Just continue spending like the rest of the DEms?

Regardless of what side you are on there should have been due diligence instead of everyone playing amateur detective.

MocoLoco wrote: "You may remember after 9/11, Eric Holder pushed for greater gun control--despite the fact that the terrorists used box cutters, not guns."

Really? Wasn't he in private practice at that time?

And lets hope Holder and Cardin are in private practice on or before Jan 20, 2013.

It would help both,

I commend those who make comments without personally attacking other commenters. It clearly demonstrates those who behave like adults, the bigger people.

Yeah, y`all, let's NOT end racial profiling. DOH!

Frank,

Stay happy.

John

A Holy and Happy Easter to all.

Corbin, Cardin doesn't have lynch-mob mentality. I was referring to what is seems to be occurring in the 'general populace'. Cardin's genine concern & quest to alleviate profiling (of any sort) is admirable. But could have made point and drawn interest just as effectively without using Trayvon incident AS racial profiling implying somehow that has indeed been proven 'beyond a reasonable doubt'. I prefer to wait till 'jury is in'. And that will come if we all step back and give room (and time) for a thorough investigation. Justice will be served.

racial profiling is good police work. seeing two black males in stevenson @3AM in a car registered to e.balto is a bright red flag.

ben cardin is a class A schmuck. a race hulstelr like jesse and revum al.

Here is another example of what Cardin is helping to produce:

http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2012/04/03/Man-78-recounts-assault-by-6-youths-in-E-Toledo.html

Six black youths beating a 78-year-old man in Toledo, Ohio in revenge for Trayvon's death.

Ben, you are the greatest. always telling the truth just like ABC, NBC, CNN and Obama. Are you going to wear a hoodie during your election campaign?

cc: Sen. Cardin

Based on all of the comments, I now know where the my children's classmates get their views. From their intolerant parents.

G,
Is "intolerant" the same as "injustice"? Sounds like that is your view.
Ben would look real good in a hoodie. He would do well to campaign in a hoodie?

Has Senator Cardin ever condemned Black on White crime?

Corbin,

Hate crime legislation is generally directed to the protection of minorities.

It would be good to hear Ben say what you are assuming. His article which occasioned all these comments did not reflect what you are assuming. It was gutter politics. He doesn't deserve to be our senator.

Guess what the prosecutor called it. PROFILING.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57413385/court-affidavit-zimmerman-profiled-trayvon-martin/?tag=stack

T.
From the CBS report: (Can we trust CBS?)

"The affidavit, which is the prosecution's point of view in filing a second-degree murder charge against Zimmerman, presents the prosecution's answers to two questions that have been debated in the weeks since the shooting: ..."

Even if the prosecutor is factually correct, it doesn't justify Cardin's slime-ball politics calling it profiling before any authoritative statement. Even now he is not justified in calling it profiling until proven in court.

Have a great day!

Defenders of profiling are quick to deny or deemphasize its racial component. They condemn profiling solely on the basis of race, but defend profiling by looking for signs that a person might be a lawbreaker as good police work. If blacks are being stopped and searched at a disproportionately high rate as compared to whites, they charge, it is because they commit a disproportionately high number of crimes. Defenders of profiling point to statistics that show, for example, that while blacks comprise only about 13 percent of the population, they make up 35 percent of all drug arrests and 55 percent of all drug convictions.

I think Hate Crime as a classification, with increased penalties are wrong. There are those on these pages that think otherwise.

For Montgomery County, does anyone know of any prosecution, in the past 10 years, of any minority for any Hate Crime in which the victim was/is an otherwise normal White person?

This statement by Cardin just guaranteed that I will vote for someone else. He is a typical pandering politician who sees his chance to win the black vote. Has he introduced any bills that would prohibit the beating and robbing of the white guy in downtown Baltimore last week by a crowd of blacks? That video has been hushed up by the liberal media but it is available online.

Actually racial profiling is good police work. If an officer works in an area where 95% of the armed robberies have been committed by black males and he sees two black males enter a store at closing time while another remains behind the wheel would it be unlawful under Cardin's bill to keep the car under observation? Would it be unlawful for the officer to get out of his car and look in the store window?

Mr. Cardin you are a joke.

"Racial profiling—the targeting of individuals because of race, ethnic identity, national origin or religion—has no place in our nation. The recent, tragic and avoidable shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American teenager in Florida, has focused national attention on the need to make sure minority communities are protected from hate crimes and racial profiling, a practice that is ineffective in crime prevention, undermines effective law enforcement, and erodes civil rights."

Senator Cardin,

What about White communities? Do they deserve to be protected from hate crimes and racial profiling?

Why did you single out minority communities? Do they deserve special protections, that non-minorties will be denied?

It seems to me that "equal protection under the laws" will be denied to many, to appease the few if your law is passed.