The tragedy of recent high school graduate Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has caused an outrage against abusive cops, and the grand jury’s recent decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson has catalyzed countless riots across the nation. From the Los Angeles protest blocking traffic on the 101 freeway to the New York protest from Manhattan to Harlem, the jury’s decision has sparked something of a revolution against the “justice” system’s abusive cops.

“Justice” is a severely distorted term for what had become of Brown’s case. If Brown hadn’t been a racially profiled person of color (POC), then would the outcome had been the same? No, and that’s something that I would bet my life on. Brown’s skin color had more than influenced Wilson’s trigger-happy reaction; in fact, Brown being of African American race had decided it.

Brown had been described by his teachers as a “gentle giant,” and had been solely judged by Wilson as “it looks like a demon, that’s how angry he looked.” “America’s finest” is supposedly here to “protect and serve,” whereas Brown was completely dehumanized by Wilson.

Wilson stated in his testimony that “when I grabbed him, the only way I can describe it is I felt like a five-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan.” Wilson is 6’4”, the same height as Brown. It is more than obvious that Wilson profiled Brown as a thug, as a gangster worth little to nothing for society, which was convenient for Wilson, seeing as he was armed and Brown was not. That is what the case comes down to — the fact that Brown was an unarmed eighteen-year-old high school graduate and that Wilson was an armed grown man.

Brown supposedly “robbed” a local convenience store of cigarillos, which wasn’t proven by the store’s surveillance tape in the first place. Even if he had stolen from the store, is petty theft reason enough to get shot? Remember the Aurora movie theater shooting in 2012? The shooter, James Eagen Holmes, shot up to 50 rounds per minute and killed 12 people. Holmes had been put into custody peacefully. And, oh yeah, this mass murderer was white. The racial profiling in America’s “justice” system could not be made more apparent.

A solution? Hmm. In a country built on Native American genocide and African American slavery just hundreds of years ago, a simple solution to police brutality based on racial profiling isn’t staring anyone right in the face. Actual justice for Brown would be the first on the list, which is being worked on by Brown’s parents who testified at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Nov. 12. Along with a reevaluation of the grand jury’s decision not to indict Wilson, police brutality would drastically drop if they were required to wear video monitors as the Los Angeles Police Department has begun to wear.

If law enforcement has nothing to hide, then they have nothing to fear. Brown had nothing to hide, but because he was a young black man being profiled by Wilson, he had something to fear.