Can't two play at that game?
If everything George Zimmerman did leading up to his killing of Trayon Martin was dumb, although perfectly legal, it would seem to me it would also be perfectly legal to conduct an experiment and recreate a similar scenario.
What would happen if an African American started calling 911 and trailing "suspicious" white people but had a series of concealled cameras to record their reactions?
Of course, if things were close to getting out of hand, there would be a safety crew close by to intercede and reveal the experiment to the subject.
The point of the experiment would be to see how much hostility profiling an innocent but differently raced person could elicit from them and to record their reaction.
There would be no initiation of physical contact during the experiment but it could go as far as verbally instructing the subject to stay where they were while you called the police.
I wonder how much data could be collected and thrown on YouTube regarding erroneous profiling for public and professional scrutiny?
It would also seem a great way to channel our collective outrage.
