-- from CNN.com:

Driving through Mississippi on his way from Texas to Georgia, Hiran Medina was pulled over, and he consented when a deputy asked to search his vehicle.

After the Hinds County deputy found $5,000, Medina said, he was handcuffed and told that the money was being seized, and that unless he took legal action against the county within 30 days, the money would be forfeited to the sheriff's department. Medina, a Latino man, was released, however.

While Medina's money was returned after he and the American Civil Liberties Union told the story to media outlets, the ACLU points to the incident in a report released Wednesday to demonstrate the kind of racial profiling by authorities that, it says, remains a problem nationwide.

The report, jointly released with the Rights Working Group, was submitted Wednesday to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. In it, the organizations blame government policies for contributing to the issue.

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