On NOW with Alex Wagner Tuesday, Salon senior staff writer Brian Beutler discussed his new article “What I learned from getting shot,” in which he details his near-fatal mugging in 2008 at the hands of two black teens in hoodies.
“It happens to be the case that if they had been stopped and frisked, the police would have found a gun and I probably would have been OK,” Beutler said. “But I’m the one in a thousand that the policy would have–I hate to use the word, but ‘worked for’–it would have protected me but that doesn’t mean it’s a reasonable price to ask a community to pay.”
In the article, Beutler says that “being a victim of gun violence doesn’t have to turn you into a supporter of racial profiling.”
Beutler was joined in the debate by Business Insider’s Josh Barro and theGrio.com’s Joy Reid.








