People with facial hair suspiciously similar to the kind seen in in training videos featuring jihadi terrorists should probably be profiled, a Fox News contributor suggested Tuesday.
Bo Dietl’s remarks came as he and a Fox Business panel discussed reports that the neighbors of the now-deceased San Bernardino terrorists, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, failed to report the killers’ suspicious activities because they didn’t want to be labeled racists.
“You know what, I’m sorry, we got to start profiling,” Dietl, a former NYPD detective, told the Making Money panel. “We got to start profiling when people act like a terrorist, when people start growing that facial hair, and start growing that facial hair around their chin.”
“And when people are acting, when people are acting in their garage at three o’clock in the morning, you see Middle-East-looking guys walk in and out at three o’clock in the morning,” he added.
A Fox Business panel member, criminal defense attorney Eric Guster, interjected to note that law enforcement can’t profile someone for simply looking like they’re from the Middle East.
“Well why do you think they look like that?” Dietl responded. “They grow the facial hair, and you know it for yourself. The ISIS guys cannot shave the beard, if they start, if they’re radicalizing –”
Guster cut him off, saying, “That type of profiling is inappropriate. But if you see something wrong, you need to report it.”
(h/t Mediaite)
