Police profiling in Nigeria by Shayera Dark.
For years, Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) operatives profiled young people, branding them criminals for simply sporting tattoos or dreadlocks, carrying a laptop or iPhone, or driving flashy cars.
But on 8 October 2020, after a viral video surfaced on social media showing a SARS officer killing a man, thousands of young Nigerians took to the streets to demand the notorious police unit’s dissolution.
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