| TheRealMafoo said: @CommonMan Today a cop can search any person, house, or car they want if they think there is a crime going on. All they have to do is lie, and say they smelled pot, or heard a woman screaming. You don't see cops doing this, even though the law is worded in a way where they can. This will be the same. It just allows a cop the ability to do there jobs. |
If we were to believe that cops are not using racial profiling right now, then I see where you're coming from. From my experience (again it is second hand) they actually DO harass people of color. I knew a native american guy who told me a story where he got pulled over, the cops had him exit his vehicle, they whupped on him for a minute or so, and then got in their cars and left. That was it. Do you think that has ever happened to a guy like me? No effing way! And it is NOT okay to do this, I don't see how it could be. And stopping someone and asking them for their papers because they look "hispanic" is exactly the same thing on a lesser scale.
"Well Pablo, looks like you don't have your liscense, you're comin' with us!" Even if "Pablo" is a 5th generation American citizen, he gets his day disrupted because he took out his liscense and left it at home. Will that ever happen to a guy like me? Hell to the no! That is wrong to me.
