What can we do about police profiling my husband?
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The police are really living up to their stereotype there. Horrible and you have my sympathy. As a future countermeasure, it may be good for the driver to take the keys to the truck with him, so that your husband can say, "I don't have the keys, I can't be driving." If the keys are in the ignition, that is harder to do - though if he's in the passenger seat, obviously the police are just being jerks.
Civil rights are probably being violated here, though the police will come up with 10 excuses why they did nothing wrong. Technically you probably have a lawsuit for damages, but if money is tight you have no money to pay an attorney to assist you. These cases are very difficult to win, due to the hemming and hawing about reasonable suspicion, etc the police can do.
You may want to schedule an appointment with a local plaintiff's (personal injury) attorney to discuss. If this type of harassment has happened before, it could happen again - and if you got it on tape (even audiotape, say a recorder in a shirt pocket) you would really have good evidence for a lawsuit if they are singling him out on a regular basis when he's in town. Without this sort of evidence, it is very difficult to sue the police.
