What do you think of this case?

Maxondaerth said:
Tough and interesting. While I agree the charges probably should be dropped, I do wanna point out a couple things about the profiling. I've done gate security at a military post, and you ID everyone if they a) don't have military post sticker displayed or b) if they aren't in uniform. Then, once the stop was made, the driver had no license. I'd say that calls for looking into, since that is illegal. Then the guy on duty isn't DEA trained, and if I found a baggie of "herbal tea" with 25k in cash in the car, I'd be calling into my superiors and holding them till further stuff could be looked into.
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But that's after you already did the search.

The "profiling" part has to do with the fact that the FBI was called, which they probably wouldn't have done had he been John Smith.

Maxondaerth said:
Plus, and I hate to say this because I really don't consider myself racist in any way (and neither does my mexican-american goddaughter ;) ) but military personnell are gonna look at anyone who appears to be middle eastern approaching a post a little more carefully. They just are, it's somewhat human nature. If trolls have been hitting caravans and one walks into the tavern, you may not draw weapons but you do keep a closer eye on him than, say, an elf. Tell me ya don't! *grin* Anyway, light heartedness aside, it sucks but people of middle eastern decent or birth need to be aware of this and watch they don't do something silly to draw more attention to themselves, like drive up to an army post with the driver not having a valid license, same way when I was in the army and would go to Juarez to hit the bars, I knew us GI's didn't go off on our own after dark or we'd get picked up/harassed by the mexican cops.
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Yeah, but he was asleep at the time! :D He didn't even know she was pulling in there, and she didn't know it was an Army Depot! She was just looking for directions!
 
IMHO there was no reason for the search to take place.
 
Next on NBC Nightly News: MWE profiling. Is it happening in your kingdom?
 
Perhaps NBC Knightly News?
 
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