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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is what racial profiling looks like (reddit post)
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/wtyi4z/this_is_what_racial_profiling_looks_like/
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This is what racial profiling looks like (reddit post) (Original Post)
Swede
Aug 2022
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markie
(22,756 posts)1. no excuse for this
scary stuff
Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)2. +1
Saoirse9
(3,680 posts)3. Just so enraging
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)4. AND.... the way I read that is the officer was basically just stupid.
He was calm, he seemed certain of himself, like the guy just dyed his hair but was older than he looked.
But because they are taught to always suspect blacks and profile them as suspects, not citizens, he went after the wrong guy and kept it up.
malaise
(269,054 posts)5. I am shaking with anger
Damn!
In his own yard.
Solomon
(12,310 posts)6. I wish I could see the video. I can't get the reddit app.on my device.
Swede
(33,256 posts)10. Here's a report on the encounter
MerryHolidays
(7,715 posts)7. Truly awful. Please note this happened in 2019
Here's a case update from that same reddit page: https://casetext.com/case/evans-v-lindley-1
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)8. That makes my blood boil
GreenWave
(6,759 posts)9. One of the posters there said:
Why did not not turn on his body cam? He thinks hes making an arrest on someone with 2 felony warrants and doesnt turn it on? That should throw all his credibility out the window.
Indeed judges should be leery about accepting the stupid phrase.. I didn't remember to have it on.
Indeed judges should be leery about accepting the stupid phrase.. I didn't remember to have it on.