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[quote=Anonymous]AA woman here- I don't think I have ever been profiled by the police before. So I don't worry about that. But it has certainly happened to many AA men. But I have been profiled in stores. In my late teens, my sister and I were asked to leave a 7-11. I was a college student looking for some junk food, trying to decide what to buy and the guy assumed I was there to steel. Years later, an idiot at dress barn accused me of trying/attempting to steel their cheap @ss clothes. (i still refuse to shop there). This past summer at a county fair, I noticed a worker in a (fake) jewelry booth eyeing me very (too) closely, the whole time I was in his booth. The first 2 times, I was just in the store shopping and didn't even know I was being watched. And the reaction from the store keeper was shocking and humiliating. It really upset me. The county fair guy was annoying and stupid. I just told myself that he has just lost a sale. I am in my 40s and can only think of 3 times that this has happened - so it has been a rare thing. With the police, I've been stopped several times for traffic issues (that were my fault) and the cops have always been nice and I'd say when I was younger I usually got a ticket (speeding). In the past 5 yrs, I can think of 5 times where I was stopped and they let me off with a friendly warning. But as I said, I know of AA men who have had completely different experiences.[/quote]

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