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The act of targeting people for police or security scrutiny based on their race or ethnicity.
Racial profiling or ethnic profiling is the act of suspecting, targeting or discriminating against a person on the basis of their ethnicity, religion or nationality, rather than on individual suspicion or available evidence.
source: wikipedia
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