When Dee Brown was racially profiled
Recent events have reminded me of an ugly episode in 1990:
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/26/us/wellesley-journal-mistaken-identity-or-case-of-racism.html
..."Like any other first-time home buyers, Dee Brown and his fiancee were feeling on top of the world last week. They had just found a house in this affluent Boston suburb, filled with successful lawyers, doctors and computer company executives.
''The house was perfect,'' said Mr. Brown, the first-round draft pick of the Boston Celtics last spring. ''We were looking forward to living in it.''
But then last Friday, when Mr. Brown, who is 21 years old, and his fiancee, Jill Edmondson, came out of the post office in Wellesley Hills and got in their rented car, everything suddenly fell apart.
They were surrounded by nine police officers, five of them with guns drawn, who ordered the couple to lie face down on the pavement.
The police had just received a call from the manager of a branch of the South Shore Bank across the street that a person resembling a man who had robbed the bank of $1,800 on Tuesday was outside the post office. The manager acted after a secretary, sitting at the window, saw Mr. Brown go into the post office."....(more at link)