Institutional Racism

Police
Unfair treatment conducted by law officials, including but not limited to excessive force,
profiling, threats, coercion, and racial, ethnic, religious, gender/sexual, age, or other
forms of discrimination.
Power
Power harassment is harassment or unwelcome attention of a political nature, often
occurring in the environment of a workplace including hospitals, schools and
universities. It includes a range of behavior from mild irritation and annoyances to
serious abuses which can even involve forced activity beyond the boundaries of the job
description. Power harassment is considered a form of illegal discrimination and is a
form of political and psychological abuse, and bullying.
Psychological
This is humiliating, intimidating or abusive behavior which is often difficult to detect,
leaving no evidence other than victim reports or complaints. This characteristically
lowers a person’s self-esteem or causes one to have overwhelming torment. This can
take the form of verbal comments, engineered episodes of intimidation, aggressive
actions or repeated gestures. Falling into this category is workplace harassment by
individuals or groups mobbing.
Community-based psychological harassment, meanwhile, is stalking by a group
against an individual using repeated distractions that the individual is sensitized to.
Media reports of large numbers of coordinated groups stalking individual stalking
victims, including a press interview given by an active duty police lieutenant, have
described this community-based harassment as gang stalking.
Racial
The targeting of an individual because of their race or ethnicity. The harassment may
include words, deeds, and actions that are specifically designed to make the target feel
degraded due to their race or ethnicity.
Religious
Notice to passengers posted behind bus driver, in
Hebrew: "Every passenger may take any seat they
choose (excepting places marked for disabled persons);
harassing a passenger in this regard may be a criminal
offence".
Verbal, psychological or physical harassment is used
against targets because they choose to practice a
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