Latino/”Middle Eastern”
April 13th, 2008 by 
elenamary
“While no terror incidents occurred anywhere in the United States on Election Day 2004, Ohio Emergency Management Agency incident reports, obtained last month by The Enquirer, show a “terrorism threat rumor’’ in Tuscarawas County and complaints about people of “Middle Eastern descent’’ in Allen and Lorain counties.
The Lorain County incident turned out to be an international monitoring group photographing a polling place in Grafton. The Allen County incident was reported to the Defense Department as suspicious people in a gold minivan with California plates. It turned out to be four Latino males doing a film project, according to state EMA records.”
Nathan Says:
April 16th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
The exact same thing happened to me just after 9/11. Hope this isn’t link spam, but here are some projects that deal with the issue:
Suspect video footage I was shooting when I got reported:
http://nathangibbs.com/suspect-video/
Follow up photoillustration Wanted poster:
http://nathangibbs.com/wanted-poster/
Self-Portrait that deals with identity:
http://nathangibbs.com/self-portrait/
mari Says:
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
The same thing happened to a friend of mine in law school, in 2002. We were all at Critical Race and LatCrit conference in Portland. After dinner, our friend, who is Pakistani, went for a walk ~ and wanted to take sunset photos of the river and bridge near the hotel. You can imagine what happened. I think the cops questioned him for a while and let him go eventually ~ we were furious, but not surprised. Sigh ~ some things never change. Thanks for the link~!
abdul-halim Says:
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:53 am
wow, i’m putting this on my blog