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'I'm one of you': Black firefighter says he was profiled
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Officials apologized to a black Rhode Island firefighter who says he was racially profiled by a pair of police officers who approached him with guns drawn as he sat in a car outside his own fire station.
In an emotional interview with WPRI-TV, Terrell Paci said he was on duty, in uniform and chatting Wednesday night with a friend who was dropping off food when the unidentified officers approached, demanding to know if he was armed.
“I was dressed in full uniform and had my radio in hand,” Paci, 23, said in the interview, which was broadcast Friday night from a Providence protest rally that drew more than 10,000 people.
“I was like, ‘I’m a firefighter, I’m PFD, I’m one of you — don't shoot,’ and they still kept approaching the vehicle with guns drawn," Paci said, fighting tears.
Paci said one of the officers searched his friend's car before driving off. Hours later, he said, a Providence police sergeant visited the fire station and apologized after having viewed body camera footage.
- Police union responds to firefighter’s accusations: ‘There was no racial profiling’
https://www.wwlp.com…instrmntl - This is exactly why people are upset. I can’t comprehend how some dickwads still don’t get it.monospaced
- Yupinstrmntl
- ive been profiled for gold wheels. im white, but get it who runs gold 18'sdeathboy
- i know fully the culture and idea of it. most people who run wheels are street racers. im not one but i risk it and get it. and judged by it.still on medeathboy
- you sound like a beat up wife with an abusive husband. :(pango
- that seems to undermine abused wives. are you making a joke out of their situation pangodeathboy
- haha see how stupid that is?deathboy
- Only thing stupid is you misinterpreting what he wrote and defending unconscious bias for Criminal racial profilingmonospaced
- umm... ya.. that sad face is real. I feel bad for the abused wifes, who think their husband beat them for their own good. How you think that was a joke?pango
- Police union responds to firefighter’s accusations: ‘There was no racial profiling’