The RIRA Common Council condemned racial profiling at its March 8 meeting, calling it contrary to Roosevelt Island's founding principles.

Unanimously passing a resolution proposed by former RIRA President Nneka Pope, the Common Council responded to Pope's argument that "racial profiling is not marginalized just to the New Jersey Turnpike."

"If you did not know that before Amadou Diallo," she said, "you know it now." Diallo is the 22-year-old man who was killed in a hail of NYPD bullets by officers who thought he had drawn a gun.

Text of the resolution:

Whereas Roosevelt Island was founded on the premise of racial tolerance and racial co-existence;

Whereas Roosevelt Island is an ethnically, socially and economically diverse community;

Whereas the Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) represents all residents;

Whereas racial profiling is in direct contradiction to the tenets of Roosevelt Island;

Be It Resolved; RIRA condemns the practice of racial profiling by all federal, state, city agencies and departments that receive tax monies.