On Fox News’ Hannity and Colmes Sunday, guest Rod Wheeler said recent reports of local police in Arizona identifying a criminal suspect as Hispanic — even though someone Hispanic could be white or dark-skinned — did not qualify as racial-profiling. Wheeler explained that in this case, police identified “the suspect as being a Hispanic male. Not a black male. Not a Chinese male, with his eyes like this (pulls eyes to side), but a Hispanic male.” Watch it:
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