_Editor’s note: MU Police Department Capt. Brian Weimer responded to this letter in a letter titled “MUPD: Getting the facts. That letter can be found [here](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2011/3/23/mupd-getting-facts/)._

Two of my friends and I attended the Scissor Sisters concert at the Blue Note on Friday night, March 11, 2010. The concert was amazing and it was really nice weather so we decided to walk back to the dorms from The Blue Note. We were having a great time walking and on our way back a car pulled up next to us to ask us directions. After about 2 minutes of trying to explain to them how to get where they wanted to go (no success), they drove away. There had been an MUPD police car parked on the side of the street the entire time we were giving them directions and the moment that they pulled away the police car pulled out and sped right toward them to pull them over. This all happened next to the student center on Mizzou’s campus.

The car asking for directions was a car full of black males. They were not doing anything illegal or even out of the ordinary but the police car still felt it necessary to pull them over immediately. My friends and I were appalled at the racial profiling and were disgusted for the rest of the walk home. We were all, and still are, convinced that the police in the car were chasing after the car because the driver and passengers were black.

If all of MUPD is as racist as this car, that is a serious problem. MUPD needs to address this problem before the entire black community at Mizzou is targeted on Mizzou’s campus for no reason except for the color of their skin.