Maine Gov. Paul LePage's confusing remarks on racial profiling

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Earlier this week, he said he keeps a binder with mugshots of all the drug dealers arrested in Maine, and he claimed that 90 percent of the people in that binder were black or Hispanic. ... On Friday, LePage first denied that Maine police officers were racially profiling people ... ... “Look, a bad guy is a bad guy, I don’t care what color it is. When you go to war, if you know the enemy, the enemy dresses in red and you dress in blue, you shoot at red, don’t you?” he said. “You shoot at the enemy. You try to identify the enemy. And the enemy right now, the overwhelming majority right now coming in are people of color or people of Hispanic origin. I can’t help that. I just can’t help it. Those are the facts.”

So, from the context, I'd take "war" to be the "War on Drugs", "enemies" to be "drug dealers" and "shoot" to be "arrest". But using that metaphorical framework, his remarks about "uniforms" would be racial profiling... which he claims the police don't do.

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