New York - Lawmakers Consider Race To Identify Potential Terror

New York - State legislation proposed would allow law enforcers to consider race and ethnicity - a "terrorist profile" - to identify potential suspects.

A civil rights advocate decried the move, saying it's "anathema to principles of equality."

The bill, which hasn't yet come up for a vote in either the state Assembly or Senate, would allow "the use of race as one of many criteria in the war on terror," said Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn. "Suicide bombers and terrorists fit a very specific intelligence profile, and race and ethnicity is very much a part of that profile."