Here's the thing I never get about these situations...

Let's just say that the cop IS "profiling" the guy and following him for being black. Let's say he's doing this hoping that the guy will commit some minor infraction so that the cop can stop him and have an excuse to frisk him. Unless the guy was a felon in possession, that's where it would end. But noooooo, the idiot is walking around with illegal drugs in his possession, knowing that it is illegal and that the consequences for him are probably greater than they are for non-felons, and he did it anyway!

I was involved in the punk rock scene when I was younger. In the South. I got "profiled", followed, "harassed", searched, etc. more than a few times. While I don't think choosing to have a blue mohawk is the same thing as being born black, the thing that resulted in my never having been arrested is that no matter how I looked I never had anything illegal in my pocket.