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Yes, these statistics --> here "Black people, including African American and people of East African descent, make up 18 percent of the population in Minneapolis and 40 percent of the stops included in MPD’s dashboard"

Now before you go on, I know that statistics can be manipulated in different ways. I also agree that cops have a reason to profile - if it seems most criminals are elves, they will stop elves

My point was simple - no matter what the underlying cause (criminality in the black community or whatever), for a law-abiding black man it is irritating to be stopped over and over

If I was in that position I'd be irritated. To give you an example - when I travelled to Cambodia my wife and I were continuously targeted by street vendors to buy stuff from them because of what we looked like - it was ok the first 3 times, but when it was 5 times daily it was irritating.

And that's just being pestered to buy stuff.

now I'm not pretending to say I know the solution, but I can sympathize -- even if tomorrow black crime ends completely, then there will still be a short time before the authorities stop profiling (with reason -- if I'm a copy I would do exactly the same and this also keeps the places safe) - and this is NOT cop-bashing, what the cops are doing is correct as they are authorized to keep the peace. But I can sympathize.