Racial Profiling In America
Racial Profiling Across America Today In California, two young black men were pulled over by Santa Monica police officers in the garage of the hotel they were staying in. They were pulled from their car, cuffed, and separated into two patrol cars while their vehicle was searched. After a couple of hours they were let go with an explanation from police that they fit the description of some robbery suspects. In Florida, a black man was pulled over by 2 Orange County deputies. He was pulled from his car, thrown to the ground, pepper sprayed and arrested. He had been pulled over for an illegal lane change and illegible license plates. He was an off duty Miami-Dade police officer. “One of the most famous recent cases of DWB (driving while black) involves Johnny Gammage, the first cousin of professional football player Ray Seals of the Pittsburgh Steelers” (Burris,96). Seven minutes after being pulled over in his cousin’s new Jaguar, he was dead. Suffocated by 5 Pittsburgh police evidently because he was black. These incidents are considered forms of Racial Profiling, which is defined as the systematic traffic stopping and interrogating of suspects based solely on their skin color. Racial profili
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