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Racial Profiling Protest Cost Univ. MN Employee Her Job, Lawsuit Says

A former University of Minnesota employee has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that she lost her job in the Office for Equity and Diversity for raising concerns about racial profiling on campus. Alysia Lajune of Woodbury says that she was forced out as a vice president’s assistant in 2014 after she criticized university officials for identifying suspects in campus crime alerts as black males. …