metmike: Look at the picture below and tell us if you think these 2 guys resemble each other.

One is almost bald, the other has a thick head of hair and seems to be younger.

However, I suspect the resemblance was close enough to justify the cops stopping the innocent guy as they were only  doing their jobs........trying to apprehend a violent criminal so they could make the community safer.

If there wasn't a violent criminal that looked a bit like this guy on the loose, then this would be blatant profiling.........stopping a black guy, being suspicious of a black guy just because he was black.

But the criminal was also black, so they were suspicious of him because of  that, along with him being male and probably close to the same age and other features close. If the suspect was white, we assume that this black man would NOT have been stopped based on everything that happened.

Most importantly, both parties acted very calmly and professionally and not only were there no hurt feelings, there was a mutual respect felt by each for the other party as they saw the situation thru the eyes of the other person.

A Black man was stopped by sheriff's deputies while jogging in a predominately white neighborhood. The sheriff later asked him to teach deputies about biases.

https://www.insider.com/black-man-stopped-by-police-jogging-florida-neighborhood-2020-9

• Joseph Griffin was stopped by deputies from the Volusia County Sheriff's Office while jogging through Deltona, Florida, on August 27.
• Deputies said Griffin resembled the description of a burglary suspect, and detained him until they confirmed he was not the suspect.
• Griffin told viewers on a Facebook Live: "If something happens to me, you all better raise hell."
• In a statement on Facebook, Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood said the incident was a teacheable moment, and offered Griffin, who has experience as a military police officer, a job. 
• Griffin turned down the job, but said he'd help with implicit bias training in the department.

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  Joseph Griffinabout 3 weeks ago
  Ladies and gentlemen... this is “the description” that I fit... I’ll let y’all decide on this one... https://youtu.be/fc4cbjqmr4o
   Sheriff’s response —> https://youtu.be/fc4cbjqmr4o
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