When if comes to courts of law, and police culpability in civil rights violations, I don't think it is realistic to expect the police to be any more honest than the criminals. Maybe there was more than one sort of profiling going on. Maybe not.
In any case, what I said has nothing to do with any sort of he said she said between police officers and whomever they are currently being sued by. What I'm specifically referring to is profiling someone who is walking behind you based on race alone, which was seemingly what Lasereth was trying to justify by citing FBI statistics. There are more relevant characteristics to consider than race when it comes to whether one should feel threatened by someone they run into on the street. Even then, looks can be deceiving, and if one feels inclined to prepare for the worst based on the superficial appearance of a person walking towards them, they should also be prepared to look like a fool if that person proves their fear to be misplaced.
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