When did this become a "racial profiling" issue?
Von_Capo.. you remarked that "Americans are trained to obey the laws" or something to that effect.. I dont believe that this is at issue in this incident.. many Americans are brought up with the "challenge Authority" mind set.. civil disobedience etc..
What most Americans ARE capable of (learn early in life) is : pick your battles!
When a guy the size of a diesel truck asks you to do something.. for christs sake dont mouth off to him.. particularly if the guy is wearing a police uniform!
Yes.. the police acted "unprofessionally", but guess who got the sh*ty end of the stick on this deal.
The police were certainly within their rights (actually it was their duty) to ask the student to leave. The police may or may not have had reason to attempt escorting the student out of the library by the arm.
Now imagine how this might have transpired if the student ,instead of screaming and making a huge issue of this, had said to the officer "i'm sorry.. I left my I.D. in my car.. let me go get it and come back".. or something along these lines... anything that was NOT disrespectfull. I can guarantee that NONE of this would have happened!
As far as I can see it, the student is AT LEAST as responsible for the incident as the police are.
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