God this kind of profiling pisses me off so bad.

The investigation went years without apparent progress until Tuesday, when Garrido showed up on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley with his two daughters and tried to get permission to hand out literature and speak, Kollar said. He did not know the subject of either the literature or the planned talk.

Police officers “thought the interaction between the older male and the two young females was rather suspicious,” so they confronted them and performed a background check on him, Kollar said.

That check revealed that Garrido was on federal parole for a 1971 conviction for rape and kidnapping, for which he had served time in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.

These officers should not be allowed to characterize the interaction between individuals as being ’suspicious’ and then do checks on them. People have every right to act suspicious without law enforcement thinking that suspiciousness could be suspicious. When will the state learn that you can’t just put people in boxes. This makes me so mad.

The story gets worse. After the cops unfairly profiled this guy they discovered that he kidnapped a little girl and has been keeping her hidden in his backyard for close to 20 years. Basically, the cops stereotyped some behavior and then ruined this guys life by taking away the women he had forcibly kept hidden in his backyard. Furthermore, he apparently sired some children with her, and now the state is going to deprive these children of their father. This underscores the importance of why all profiling should be eliminated. The cops involved in the case should be thrown in jail for the pain and suffering they have caused this happy submissive family.

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