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“From [the police] perspective, racism has not been perpetuated if the officer is not racist. In this case, the officer was just looking for criminals… [But the] idea of what a ‘criminal’ looks like is based on a racial stereotype."
Sustaining Systemic Racism Through Psychological Gaslighting: Denials of Racial Profiling and Justifications of Carding by Police Utilizing Local News Media
Race and Justice
Vol. 10 Issue 4, pp. 424–455,
2020
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