Obama Arrested in Paris?

Wait, it's only a look-alike? I'm confused.

So were the French police apparently. I saw this on The Today Show at the Dentist's on Tuesday, and found a link on The Huffington Post.


Looks like the French activist group CRAN hired an American Barack Obama look-alike to walk around Paris to see how many times the police would question him and ask for his papers. It was a lot. Why Obama? To get attention. It is difficult to bring attention to the problems of racial profiling in France and they thought that if it was Barack Obama that was being questioned, people would notice. I did, because it was on The Today Show. Did you?

How bad is racial profiling in France? Is it different than that which goes on in America? From the videos that I've found related to this, it seems that this guy is just jogging and gets asked for his papers quite often. That's sketchy. But questionable, because Obama isn't the racial profile I would think the French police would be going after. He doesn't fit the North African bill.

I'll do more looking into this.