In a new issue of "Uptown" magazine, "Empire" star Taraji P. Henson revealed that her 20-year-old son is transferring schools after not one but two instances of being racially profiled by police in California.
Henson says the first incident involved Marcel being pulled over by Glendale cops, while in the second he was stopped by USC campus police for having his hands in his pockets.
"My child has been racially profiled. He was in Glendale, California and did exactly everything the cops told him to do, including letting them illegally search his car. It was bogus because they didn't give him the ticket for what he was pulled over for," Henson told the magazine. "Then he's at University of Southern California, the school that I was going to transfer him to, when police stopped him for having his hands in his pockets. So guess where he's going? Howard University. I'm not paying $50k so I can't sleep at night wondering is this the night my son is getting racially profiled on campus."
USC's Department of Public Safety Chief said in a statement on Tuesday that any instance of unequal treatment will automatically trigger an investigation. Chief John Thompson said he was racially profiled as a child and finds the allegations "deeply disturbing."
