The landmark settlement Friday of a federal lawsuit alleging racial profiling by Cincinnati police is “just the beginning” of the fight for justice and equality in the Queen City.

        That was the message delivered Sunday by a panel of black leaders, including Martin Luther King III, Cincinnati attorney Ken Lawson and the Rev. Damon Lynch III, to a group of about 300 people at an Over-the-Rhine church.

        The city of Cincinnati made no admission of unconstitutional or illegal conduct by police in agreeing to the settlement.

        But that does not mean racial profiling does not exist, said Mr. Lawson, who represented Rev. Mr. Lynch and the Cincinnati Black United Front in the profiling suit.

        “The agreement is not the end-all,” Mr. Lawson said to those in attendance at the New Prospect Baptist Church to rousing applause. “We know that people don't change overnight.”

        The Southern Christian Leadership Conference invited the public to the third in a series of 10 “hearings” on racial profiling being held nationwide.

        Mr. King is the eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and president of the SCLC, the civil rights group his father founded and led to national prominence in the 1950s and 1960s.

        Mr. King said Sunday that the meetings - during which videotaped testimonials about racial profiling are being collected to be presented to authorities later - are intended to “eradicate racial, ethnic and religious profiling.”

        He said racial profil- ing does not apply only to blacks.

        And he pointed to laws that authorities have used to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely as an example of a disturbing trend that could endanger civil rights.

        “Today they are using it (anti-terrorism laws) against our Arabic brothers and sisters,” Mr. King said.

        “Tomorrow they will be using it against you.”

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