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In reply to the discussion: I was taking pictures of my daughters. A stranger thought I was exploiting them. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)This is a story told by a man about how he perceived an interaction.
We don't have the words of the other guy, we just have the words of the white man who has never been a victim of profiling before, and who, when he was profiled, didn't like it much.
I'm not "doing it from the Homeland Security guy's point of view." That's my POINT. We don't HAVE his point of view. It's conspicuous in its absence.
Again, maybe you don't realize that NJ had a horrible trafficking problem during/after the Superbowl. They have been working VERY hard to clean it up. Maybe you are not aware that Delaware, next door, has a vicious problem with trafficking--HUNDREDS of "massage parlors" staffed by Asian women who are, face it, sexual slaves. They're in the process of cleaning that up but that stuff takes time. NY, another neighbor, has the same problem.
Until we hear from that other guy, we only have one side of a story, from a guy whose life experience doesn't involve being challenged/profiled on a regular basis.