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by the_mitsuhiko 3897 days ago
I can tell you from second hand experience that this also happens to white people. I was with friends heading by car from the Netherlands to Germany and our more than white driver got a ver special handling by the police because they thought he would be driving under the effects of weed (which was definitely not the case).

Apparently there was some sort of festival happening and they assumed we would belong to another group of people and our driver looked sufficiently like a druggie I guess.

But being polite and understanding of the situation you can get out of this usually without much of a hassle.

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So you have anecdotal evidence that the police once searched a white person. Cool. ;)

I'm afraid Racial Profiling is still real.