When people here African Americans speak on this issue its not just getting pulled over or searched or being punished its the way the authority goes on about it. When this topic is brought up most of the time the definition of racial profiling is unknown,if you are clearly doing something unlawful or wrong and get caught you are not being racially profiled.This is commonly mistaken by a lot of people who scream profiling but the true definition of racial profiling is that the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. My paper will mostly be about the awakening of racial profiling and how law enforcement is going about it,it will also include how racial profiling is starting to spread through our schools not so much with lawn enforcement but with teachers and administration as well. When it all comes down to it why is racial profiling even a thing and why havent we took action to try and stop this problem after it has gone on for so many years.
Most high power authority claim to see no color or are trained to not see color but their actions have proven wrong like in early March 208 an unarmed black man was shot a
t 20 times in his grandmotherΒs backyard he was suspected of burglary. This man had no weapon he simply couldnt be seen and reached for his iphone which led cops to think that he was reaching for a weapon,what made these cops fire a total of 20 rounds into a person they couldnt see or had no reason to shoot who they didnt question not once they only acted on what they thought they knew the same officers who muted their body camera as soon as they realized they killed an unarmed black man. I would have to say there are plenty of more stories but it is also the people who call the police on suspicious activity,is it really suspicious activity. Would Tamir Rice have played with a actual gun walking around a park pretending to shoot it without a motive or was he just playing like a normal 2 year old boy with a toy gun. Of course a women called it in stated she was sure the gun was fake and 2 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down in a timed 4.03 seconds after the cops got out the vehicle.These are just some of why people think they way they do about cops and racial profiling its not like the African American community is just making up things about higher authority.