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= Racial profiling = Racial profiling occurs when someone is concerned for their own or the public’s safety and their opinion is based on another’s ethnicity, skin colour, religion, place of origin or stereotypes associated with the person’s race.

Racial profiling of African American Males
Racial profiling is very common among African American males. Many may assume them to be criminals because of their skin colour, way of speech(slang), clothing style and hair. Even law enforcement officials tend to show racism against black males making assumptions such as involvement in gang related activity, drug dealing, possession of weapons and the most popular from of discrimination against black males; driving while black. These forms of discrimination originated from the stereotype that America’s drug trade is highly populated by young black males. In 1985, The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles created “The Common Characteristics of Drug Couriers” which cautioned the police to be on the look out for rental cars, drivers paying extreme caution to traffic rules, drivers wearing large amounts of gold, drivers who do not fit the vehicle and ethnic groups who are associated with the drug trade.

Discrimination by Law enforcement officials
There are many reports of law enforcement officials harassing and assaulting African American males due to suspicious behaviour. Chris Lollie, a black male who was waiting for his children to finish school was tased and arrested because he refused to show an officer his identification which according to the law he did not have to do. When he asked what he was being arrested for, the three officers had no reason other than Lollie failing to provide them with identification.

Innocent citizens at risk

 * Trayvon Martin - A 17 year old high school student was walking home with Earphones in his ears, Arizona iced tea, a cellphone and skittles. A neighbourhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman spotted Trayvon who sheltered himself from the rain at one of the buildings. Zimmerman informed the police about the situation and instead of waiting in his truck like he was instructed, he decided to pursue the teen and shot him as an act of self defence.
 * John Crawford III - A 22 year old man who was at a Walmart with an air rifle that was taken from a shelf was shot twice by police because of a 911 call about an armed black man.
 * Jeremey Lake - Lisa Kepler was kicked out of her home by her parents and met Jeremey Lake at a homeless shelter where he was working as a volunteer and gave her a place to stay which he shared with her aunt. The two were headed home when Lisa’s dad cut them off and shot Lake and also fired shots at Lisa but missed.
 * Michael Brown - An unarmed black teenager was walking home with Dorian Johnson when a police officer told them to get off the street. They replied saying they have almost reached their destination and will be off the street soon and that’s when the officer decided to roll up next to them. Witness’ say that they saw what looked like the officer trying to pull Brown into the car when a gunshot was fired through the window.
 * Levar Jones - 35 year old Levar Jones gets pulled over for a seatbelt violation by Sean Groubert and when confronted, he replied saying he was wearing his seatbelt. Groubert asked Jones for his driver’s license and when he reached inside his car to get his license, the officer fired several shots at Jones even when he was backing away from the car with his hands in the air.