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Jane Ku and University of Windsor

racial stereotypes: The accused appears to be white, but yet you make the argument race plays a role in public perception, according to CBC. What do you mean by that Jane Ku: What police do to a racialized suspect is very much a reflection of stereotypes held by the wider society. Gunman faces charges after Pillette Village manhunt Jane Ku, a sociology professor at the University of Windsor who specializes in race, spoke with CBC Windsor Lisa Xing about the role race plays in the public reaction to suspects who are wanted by police. It not that the police officers themselves are racist. It not farfetched for individual police officers to hold those stereotypes as well. It that we, as a society, have all these racial stereotypes of people. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.