Shelby Raebeck demonstrates the negative consequences of police racial profiling in her short story “Trapped.” After their basketball game, the story’s protagonist and narrator Ricky, a white adolescent kid and the antagonist Lance, a black teen boy, are driving around. A police officer stops them. The officer questions where Lance is going and what he is doing, and his suspicions are limited to his race. When the officer asks Lance if “he had been drinking”, Lance responds, “Did I do something wrong?”, the officer replies, “Routine check”. (Raebeck 107) Lance remarks, “my ass”, and the…