(CNN) — Racial profiling “should be a hate crime investigated by the FBI,” filmmaker Tyler Perry wrote in a Facebook posting Sunday in which he described his own tense encounter with police.
“It was so hostile,” Perry, who is African-American, wrote. “I was so confused. It was happening so fast that I could easily see how this situation could get out of hand very quickly. I didn’t feel safe at all.”
Perry, one of America’s most successful film and television producers, said “although we have made significant strides with racial profiling in this country, the world needs to know that we are still being racially profiled.” Read More
