Shame on the Calgary Police.
Did anyone else watch "To Serve and Protect" tonight?
Well, the police cruiser heard of a shooting in the East, and the suspect was driving a Prelude. So being ignorant, the policeman begins tailing an Asian driving an Integra. After a couple blocks of tailing, he decides to pull him over as a "suspect", despite the plates checking out. When he pulls the Integra over, him and his partner put the driver and passenger in cuffs, search the car, run the ID's and questioned the two Asians. Not only this, but the officers call for backup from 2 other cruisers, and get the helicopter unit to come just to see whats up.
As you can guess, these 2 had nothing to do with the shooting.
A very large :thumbsdow goes to the police for their effort in this case. They do good work alot of the time, but the American influence of racial profiling is starting to come into Canada...
If these two guys in the Integra weren't Asian, the cops wouldn't have even looked twice.
Re: Shame on the Calgary Police.
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Originally posted by ninjak84
Did anyone else watch "To Serve and Protect" tonight?
Well, the police cruiser heard of a shooting in the East, and the suspect was driving a Prelude. So being ignorant, the policeman begins tailing an Asian driving an Integra. After a couple blocks of tailing, he decides to pull him over as a "suspect", despite the plates checking out. When he pulls the Integra over, him and his partner put the driver and passenger in cuffs, search the car, run the ID's and questioned the two Asians. Not only this, but the officers call for backup from 2 other cruisers, and get the helicopter unit to come just to see whats up.
As you can guess, these 2 had nothing to do with the shooting.
A very large :thumbsdow goes to the police for their effort in this case. They do good work alot of the time, but the American influence of racial profiling is starting to come into Canada...
If these two guys in the Integra weren't Asian, the cops wouldn't have even looked twice.
If he was tailing the car how could he tell the driver was asian? I assume it was dark out as well correct?
Maybe he confused an integra for a prelude, I mean for gods sake it COULD happen. One guy on this site said he could confuse a 550 Maranello for a Camaro!
Just because someone is driving a legally obtained car doesnt make them innocent of all other possible crimes. If they had the car legally isnt there still a possiblity they shot someone?
Oh, calling backup on two possible murderers, it racial profiling people!
Hyperinvestigating arabs going through canada/us borders is profiling, this seems like a case of 'investigating' to me. Police usually have to do these 'investigations' to solve crimes...