Racism in the KCPD: There’s no thin blue line for Black officers, Star investigation finds. driving an unmarked police car when two officers pulled him over. Robinson wasn’t speeding. He had not violated any traffic laws. The registration was up to date. He knew as soon as the lights flashed behind him that it was racial profiling. When the 59-year-old police veteran stepped out of the car in his blue and navy uniform, a tense exchange followed — the two officers complaining that he startled them by getting out, and Robinson pointing out his rank. Robinson’s heart pounded with fear. The incident was one of the most frightening of his career, he said. “I might have been taken down to the ground. I might have been shot,” he said. “I might have reached in my car to get my ID to prove (that he was a police officer) and been shot.”
