Racial profiling, Right or Wrong? Decision made...

Seeing one of our guys, an Asian by the English definition, after being singled out today - I have to come down on the side of 'Wrong'.

He was leaving a tube station, booted and suited, laptop in hand and got pulled out of a crowd (very publicly) and questioned - for being Asian. This was the third time it had happened to him. And it wasn't just a 'hello sir, open your bag please' - it was the full, humiliating monty (not literally - but you know what I mean).

Now I understand the practicalities that drive this. The Police have limited resources and are pretty much duty bound to 'increase their odds of finding a potential threat'. This is not in question. But today I saw the human outcome.

This guy (very Angliocised and no more threat to the UK than meteors) was distraught. What really got me is that he was not upset by the injustice (as he would have been within his rights to be) - but the humiliation. Not staggering; granted - but seeing these things first hand turns logic and 'considered opinion' into reality.

Apparently the cops were rednecks as well - doesn't help...

I know full well the reasoning and rationale behind the racial profiling argument - but when you sit and talk to an innocent victim of the practice - it does change your perspective. Completely.