A policeman interpreted an autistic Palestinian’s nervous pacing as suspicion and chased him

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At thirty-two, Eyad Hallaq was fifteen years younger than Floyd but was profiled on account of his color and identity. Police chased the disabled man, who had routinely told his mother how much he “fear[ed] passing the police on his way to class.” Eyad had good reason to fear the police, the majority of them younger than him. Shaken by fear and autism, he always paced nervously past them, which a trigger-happy policeman interpreted as suspicion on the final Saturday in May. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1127