A Washington DC police officer, simply identified as Akintunde, who visited Nigeria for the holidays, has lamented that he was profiled a criminal by the Nigeria police because he braided his hair.
He complained that police stopped the cab that conveyed him twice on Toyin Street, Ikeja, where the hotel he lodged in is.
According to him, his police credentials saved him from being a “victim”.
“4 days in Nigeria & I have already been profiled as a criminal by the Nigeria police force. They profile people based on looks. Male with dreads, braids and so on. I work for the Washington DC as a police officer and I have braids. Enough of the profiling! @TunjiDisu1 @aleeygiwa,” he wrote on Twitter.
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“Riding back to my hotel on Toyin street, Allen, Ikeja, with Taxify, and the police had stopped me twice on the same road, ordered me to step out of the vehicle asking what I do for a living. My police credentials saved me from being a victim.”
