Not sure exactly what you're advocating for, but the acceptance of racial profiling is the complete opposite of what is needed here. Racial profiling is a direct cause of these riots and should be condemned, not justified. The problem is law enforcement (along with the rest of the general population) being conditioned to treat blacks like criminals.
Oh please. The definition of racism these days has been blurred and diluted to the point where it can be (mis)applied to virtually anything. Allow me to clarify things for you.
Statistics - both impersonal (what we read about / see on the news / hear from other people) and personal (what we ourselves have experienced) - guide behavior in all living things. For example, domestic cats statistically have positive interaction with humans, and thus are typically not afraid of us. Garbage cats statistically have negative interactions with humans, leading to their being wary and fearful of us.
For humans, negative experience is called "learning the hard way". Touch a fire -> get burned -> obtain valuable survival behavior that fire damages us and shouldn't be touched. We're not being racist against fires (let's ignore the issue that fires don't have a "race" to begin with). We're acting out of preservation of our own lives based on past experiences - each time we touched that fire in the past, we got burnt, so based on statistics, it'll probably happen every time we do so in the future -
and it's likely that it will happen no matter which fire we touch.
There is a word for behavior that ignores statistics such as past experiences and blindly attempts again and again to touch fires, thinking that perhaps this time it will go differently even though nothing else has changed: insanity.
NSFW (language): Now, there's a fine line between allowing such statistics and experiences - whether they are based on a person's race, age, behavior, clothing, or whatever - to inform our behavior in potentially dangerous situations, versus discriminating against a person with no cause to do so.
Let me give you an example from my actual, daily life. I live in Jerusalem. We have neighborhoods that are predominantly Arab, Jewish, etc. Based on statistics, I'm not going to wander through the Arab neighborhoods willy-nilly. Statistically, Arabs have been more prone to violence than other ethnic groups in Jerusalem (especially recently). So my avoidance of those areas of the city is not out of racism, but the desire to preserve my life and well-being. Now, all else being equal (quality, etc), I have no problem whatsoever with buying from Arab vendors vs Jewish vendors in the market across the street from my office. To date, there has been no reason for such behavior - no spates of poisonings or anything like that. So to discriminate against Arab market vendors just because they're Arab would be racism.
Do you see the difference here? Racism is discriminating against someone for
no other reason than their race. Learning from past experiences isn't racism - it's sanity. When those past experiences show that the people engaging in negative behavior all wear pink poodle fur hats? Well, maybe the pink poodle fur hats are mind controlling the people to do bad things, and maybe not, but either way - you'd do best to steer clear of pink poodle hat wearers if you want to avoid their negative behavior.
Also, I'll tack this on here even though it should probably be integrated into my post somehow, but I only just thought of it. That learning from statistics and past behavior thing actually has two factors, not just one. I mentioned one factor, the "who", but the other factor is the situation itself. Example: Pink Poodle Hat person walking down the sidewalk towards me, brandishing a butcher knife? I'd be pretty wary. Change the situation though, and have Pink Poodle Hat standing in his meat stall at the market brandishing a butcher knife? Significantly less threatening.
