Comments by "ncwordman" (@ncwordman) on "'Karen' Calls Cops On Black Man For Standing On His Own Property" video.

  1. I thought racial profiling by police was illegal, but then I remembered all the times they did it and were filmed. So I looked it up, thinking if it's illegal for the police, it should also be illegal for citizens like this Karen. Long story short: Racial profiling is not illegal for police. Can you believe it hasn't been made into a law yet? Police can discriminate based on race. Businesses supposedly can't do it. But private citizens can for sure. "In early 2001, a bill was introduced to Congress named "End Racial Profiling Act of 2001" but lost support in the wake of the September 11 attacks. The bill was re-introduced to Congress in 2010 but also failed to gain the support it needed. Several U.S. states now have reporting requirements for incidents of racial profiling. Texas, for example, requires all agencies to provide annual reports to its Law Enforcement Commission. The requirement began on September 1, 2001, when the State of Texas passed a law to require all law enforcement agencies in the state to begin collecting certain data in connection to traffic or pedestrian stops beginning on January 1, 2002. Based on that data, the law mandated law enforcement agencies to submit a report to the law enforcement agencies' governing body beginning March 1, 2003, and each year thereafter no later than March 1. The law is found in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure beginning with Article 2.131." (Youtube doesn't like links these days. I copy/pasted the above from Wikipedia, "Racial profiling in the United States," a fascinating and disturbing read.)
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