Black police group works to put an end to racial profiling

Saturday, October 20, 2001

OAKLAND, Calif.-- As a black man, Ronald Davis believes he was once stopped by police simply because he was a minority driving a Mercedes-Benz. But as an undercover police officer, he has stopped young men on suspicion of drug-dealing because they wore baggy jeans, carried pagers -- and were black.

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