Do Police Use Racial Profiling?

The arrest of a black professor from Harvard by a white police officer has sparked debate in the United States over relations between members of minority groups and the police. Sergeant James Crowley said the professor was belligerent. Professor Henry Louis Gates said he was a victim of racial profiling, and was arrested for his skin color not his actions. U.S. President Barack Obama, the first African-American to hold that office, has invited the two men to the White House for an informal meeting Thursday intended to ease racial tensions. VOA's Chris Simkins has more on "racial profiling."