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Understanding Race Witt Ch 13

Understanding Race Witt Ch 13

Q 1. What is racial profiling (See Witt; do not use other sources)? Provide examples of how law enforcement, government officials and/or ordinary citizens used racial profiling to label and harm others (See the Michael Brown case, p. 313, and feel free to discuss George Floyd & others)?

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"Racial Profiling" refers to the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin. In Witt chapter 13, Michael Brown was stopped by officer Darren Wilson because Michael Brown matched the two suspect description who stole cigarillos from a nearby convenience store. The officer fires and Brown who was unarmed lay dead in the street. Since then, there had been many incident involving