Driving While Hispanic: Hidden Camera Reveals Possible Racial Profiling in Arizona
Reporter Andrea Sambuccetti talks to an officer in Phoenix, Arizona, to ask him why her producer was pulled over.
By ANDREA SAMBUCCETTI and INGRID ROJAS
Univision reporter Andrea Sambuccetti and her producers were caught off guard when their racial profiling test confirmed their suspicions less than five minutes after it started.
Sambuccetti set out to test how easy it is to fall victim of racial profiling in Phoenix, Arizona, where laws like SB 1070 have made this a more frequent problem.
She sent one of her producers, a Hispanic male in his late 30’s, to drive the streets of Phoenix in a rundown car, with stickers advertising a Mexican radio station while blasting corridos. She would trail from behind in an SUV recording anything that happened.
And what she found was surprising.
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