California Firearms Instructor Racially Profiled By Dick’s For Being Brown

By Bob Owens

A young California firearms instructor had police called on her by a sporting good store employee for inquiring about rifle ammo while brown.

An East Bay woman visited a Dick’s Sporting Goods last week and asked a store employee about buying eight boxes of ammunition for her AR-15. Two days later, on Friday, Sim Sangha received an unwelcome visit by two police officers.

The store employee had alerted them, police said. Now, the 24-year-old Fremont resident is accusing the store of racial profiling.

“I don’t know if it’s [because of] my skin color or that I’m Indian,” she said. “I’m not a Muslim, but even if I were, that’s no reason to call police to my home, instantly.”

Sangha, a firearms instructor, didn’t buy ammunition for her rifle – the same kind used to gun down 14 people and injure 17 others in San Bernardino – and left instead with an exercise mask.

“They singled me out,” Sangha said. “They singled me out because of the way I look.”

Had the store asked, Sangha, who is preparing to join the Los Angeles Police Department, said she would have provided proof …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms