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Blazers: Cliff Robinson requests apology from Portland mayor for 1997 racial profiling incident

Cliff Robinson, Portland Trail Blazers (Photo Credit: DAN LEVINE/AFP via Getty Images)

Former Blazer great Cliff Robinson is requesting an apology from the mayor of Portland after his racial profiling incident from 1997. Will it come into fruition?

As many of our favorite Portland Trail Blazers players are standing up to protest racial inequality and police brutality in 2020, one former great — Cliff Robinson — continues to fight his own battle from 1997.

In that summer, Robinson contested that the police overdid a search that led to a marijuana citation, a story that’s begun to generate buzz this week, particularly during the divisive times in today’s world.