Gods I hate the whole racial profiling issue. It seems like anytime a person of color is arrested they yell "Racial Profiling" to the rooftops. Yes it still legitimately happens but the issue is being clouded by all these people "crying wolf". The worse part is that the colored community is supporting all these people "crying wolf" since they immediately jump to the person defense without knowing all the facts. I am really sadden that the President joined this practice.
In this particular case I'm inclined to believe the officer. Really its a good cop (no record of any misconduct) who TEACHES the racial profiling course and is by all accounts a good instructor or the professor who is known to have a bad personality and is completely in character to have been combative to the officer. If this was a white home owner or a colored officer there and it happened exactly the same way there would be no story here. Just some home owner being an ass to the cops who were just doing their jobs.
I'll end this by saying that people engaged in racial profiling should be fired and it should not be condoned. Eventually people are going to get tired of people "crying wolf" and the real cases will be ignored and the people involved will get away with it. That's a sad thought.
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Date: 2009-07-24 03:23 pm (UTC)In this particular case I'm inclined to believe the officer. Really its a good cop (no record of any misconduct) who TEACHES the racial profiling course and is by all accounts a good instructor or the professor who is known to have a bad personality and is completely in character to have been combative to the officer. If this was a white home owner or a colored officer there and it happened exactly the same way there would be no story here. Just some home owner being an ass to the cops who were just doing their jobs.
I'll end this by saying that people engaged in racial profiling should be fired and it should not be condoned. Eventually people are going to get tired of people "crying wolf" and the real cases will be ignored and the people involved will get away with it. That's a sad thought.