Sign in Houston Apartment Complex Promotes Racial Profiling

Sign in Houston Apartment Complex Promotes Racial Profiling


A notice warning residents about black teenagers posted at a southwest Houston apartment complex this week outraged some community members, the Houston Chronicle reports.

The notice, which was posted in the Rock Springs Apartments laundry room, read, “We ask you to please contact the office immediately every time you see teenagers or adolescents of Afro-American race or any other suspicious people in the property.”

It was posted in English and Spanish, since the majority of the complex’s tenants are Hispanic.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development was called to investigate the incident.

Read more at the Grio.


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