As you can see these police officers only believed Bryan was threatening and unsafe based on his race. The police shined a light on him in suspicion, so Bryan got out of his car very frightened and was going to try and walk home until they threatened, “Move and I’ll blow your head off!” (Pg.

Bryan was sitting in his car one night until a SWAT car came rushing down the road and stopped right in front of him. Another example of racial profiling in the book involves the author, Bryan Stevenson, during his early twenties. Just by being black and having an interracial affair was sufficient enough evidence for them to believe Ralph Myer’s fake story and convict Mr. The only evidence the police had on Walter was that he “ was an African American man involved in an adulterous interracial affair, which meant he was reckless and possibly dangerous” (Pg. All of Walter’s family knew he could not have murdered her because he was a very hardworking man and they had evidence that he was at a fish fry with them while the murder took place. For example, Walter McMillian was an African American man who was accused by Ralph Myers of killing Ronda Morrison. Being black predominantly meant you were dangerous and a threat to society. Although local officials in Alabama didn’t discriminate off of religion, they did discriminate off of ethnicity and race. Racial profiling refers to the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race, ethnicity, or religion.

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