Chris Rock Keeps Taking Photos of Cops Stopping Him

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Like the best comedians, Rock speaks from personal experience. On Monday, he posted this photo for his followers on Facebook and Twitter with the caption "Stopped by the cops again wish me luck."

It's not the first time Rock's been stopped by police and taken photos of the encounters. Photographing his police stops has sort of become a thing. He did the same thing here and here. Monday marked the third time in seven weeks that Rock posted a photo of himself being pulled over by a police officer. It's unclear why he was stopped or if he was arrested.

Rock's point is clear: Racial profiling is endemic in many of America's police departments. Take New York City. Black men make up more than 25 percent of the New York Police Department's stops but comprise a relatively small share of the city's population. As Emily Badger pointed out at The Washington Post late last year, it's a problem that both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations have tried—and failed—to address.