A Wisconsin woman who was arrested at gunpoint in what police now admit was a case of mistaken identity has filed a lawsuit claiming she was racially profiled, the local Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper reports. Robin Anderson had shown up early for a job interview at the Applebee’s in Glendale, Wis., on Dec, 20, 2017, when the arrest occurred. Because she was early, the restaurant was not yet open, and the 20-year-old opted to wait inside her Hyundai, which was parked outside a cellphone store in the Bayshore Town Center shopping area. Unbeknownst to Anderson, Glendale police were that day investigating a string of robberies at area cellphone stores. Their suspects had been identified as four black males driving a black Hyundai Elantra. Although Anderson, who is black, drives a Hyundai of a different model, with a different license plate, her presence attracted notice from two police officers, named as Officer William Schieffer and Detective Adam Wall. Her lawsuit charges that the men slammed their squad car into the side door of her vehicle, smashed a window, and ordered her out of the car at gunpoint, after which she was handcuffed.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/cops-mistakenly-arrested-black-woman-waiting-applebees-job-interview-now-shes-filed-racial-profiling-suit-150010321.html
It’s almost like race isn’t a good way to decide something about someone.