Radio recordings released Dec. 22 by police give insight into the stop that generated a complaint of racial profiling filed by a UNC student.
In the hour after the fatal shooting of Drew C. Frasure on Dec. 11, the recordings, along with a previously released 911 call, suggest that Chapel Hill police knew just that a gold car might have been involved that three white men and a black man with dreadlocks might have fled the scene.
Junior Cameron Horne said he was racially profiled when, based on his account, four police officers looking for a suspect related to the shooting made him exit his car at gunpoint, handcuffing him and asking for identification. Horne does not have dreadlocks and said his car is blue, so he said he did not fit the suspect description he was told at the time.
Horne was quickly released, but filed a complaint that has drawn attention from police and school officials.
The most recently released recording mentions what might have been Horne’s stopping. An officer asks about a gold Honda with a single black male inside, presumably Horne. Another male officer tells him the suspect description mentions three black males. The 911 call for the shooting recalls three white males leaving the apartment where Frasure was shot.
“It’s not an exact science, unfortunately,” he said.
