'Empire' star Taraji P. Henson says her son was racially profiled

In a recent interview with Uptown Magazine, Taraji P. Henson says her son, Marcel, was racially profiled by police at the University of Southern California.

Henson told Uptown Magazine that her son was at the University of California, a school she was going to transfer her 20-year-old son to, when the police stopped him 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 said.

Deciding that she didn’t want to have to worry about her son being racially profiled again, Henson came up with a solution. She decided to enroll him in a historically black college instead.

“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,” Henson continued.

Marcel is Henson’s only child, whom she had with her high school sweetheart, Daily Mail notes.

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