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Title: Racial Profiling?
Post by: trueinnuendo on April 24, 2007, 08:06:38 PM: (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/462189286_f924feb938.jpg?v=0)

When police heard that the gunman was Asian, did they arrest this guy because he's Asian too?
Title: Re: Racial Profiling?
Post by: Jay on April 24, 2007, 08:14:00 PM: That would be racial profiling. What if the guy wasn't Asian?
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Post by: arun.yothin on April 24, 2007, 09:15:47 PM: What is all this about?
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Post by: StreakInTheSky on April 24, 2007, 09:40:59 PM: I don't get it...
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Post by: Asmodai on April 24, 2007, 10:36:25 PM: Meh. You see someone that fits the description of the suspect, you take him in and then figure out if you made a mistake or not.

Better safe than sorry.
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Post by: modesta107 on April 25, 2007, 01:08:52 AM: Hmm I'm kinda confused. Was that the day of the VA tech thing? or after. If it was after then the guy must have done something wrong to get arrested
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Post by: ferrar1 on April 25, 2007, 01:28:23 AM: I being an Asian would have taken him down as well if he fits the description.
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Post by: ~Dan~ on April 25, 2007, 02:08:12 AM: Quote from: modesta107 on April 25, 2007, 01:08:52 AM
Hmm I'm kinda confused. Was that the day of the VA tech thing? or after.
It was the same day, while it was all happening.
Title: Re: Racial Profiling?
Post by: kaminokami2086 on April 25, 2007, 03:06:10 AM: Because this was still during the shooting, the police did not have an actual picture of the guy, they only had a description. You fit the profile you can cuffed. Its not racial profiling. Racial profiling is when you pull over or arrest a dude simply because of his race, not because he fits the profile of the criminal.
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Post by: zlchn on April 27, 2007, 11:20:28 AM: Quote from: kaminokami2086 on April 25, 2007, 03:06:10 AM
Because this was still during the shooting, the police did not have an actual picture of the guy, they only had a description. You fit the profile you can cuffed. Its not racial profiling. Racial profiling is when you pull over or arrest a dude simply because of his race, not because he fits the profile of the criminal.

Great post...I agree. I think if I was there and got cuffed i'd be a little pissed off. But for the interest of public safety I could understand it.
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Post by: ebc on April 27, 2007, 11:37:21 AM: I just thought that cop looked really baddass in his beanie and tight pants.
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Post by: trueinnuendo on April 27, 2007, 01:45:55 PM: Quote from: ebc on April 27, 2007, 11:37:21 AM
I just thought that cop looked really baddass in his beanie and tight pants.

Good observation
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Post by: ShadowoftheDarkgod on April 27, 2007, 10:36:48 PM: Where's the racial profiling in there?
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Post by: BigDnm01 on April 27, 2007, 11:31:35 PM: racial profiling is when a cop just arrested a person of a specific race( or if they look it) for no reason. in this case, the cop have a desscription, saying an Asian man, so when he finds an asian man. he cuffed him just in case. i don't know if that is during the VA tech or not. but if it is, u can pretty much understand why the cop had to do that.
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Post by: Jay on April 29, 2007, 06:32:59 PM: Quote from: zlchn on April 27, 2007, 11:20:28 AM
Great post...I agree. I think if I was there and got cuffed i'd be a little pissed off. But for the interest of public safety I could understand it.

Eh, yeah, I didn't know the police had a description, not a picture. So that suits as accidental, but if they go further into imprisonment from their accusation, that's ~~crossing the line~~.
Title: Re: Racial Profiling?
Post by: trueinnuendo on April 29, 2007, 11:41:36 PM: Is it profiling? Yes
Is it warranted at that time? Yes
Is it racial profiling? Maybe Not
Title: Re: Racial Profiling?
Post by: trueinnuendo on April 29, 2007, 11:43:29 PM: I think here's the story of the arrest:

Photographer mistaken for shooter (http://www.collegemedia.com/stories/4-17-07/news/shaozhuo-rivera.html)

He did as he was told, and the officers put him on the ground, cuffed his hands behind his back and searched his bag. According to Cui, one officer spoke on his radio and said, “We’ve got a suspect matching the profile.”
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Post by: xkwanwahx on May 04, 2007, 04:21:46 AM: apparently in some states, the ID has a section for race...you know just in case in the event they can't tell from the pic...