“It happens all the time,” said a rather unfazed young black man after two cops briefly detained him and searched his pockets and backpack on Friday night. A little after 9:30pm, he was walking along Broadway on the Bushwick-Williamsburg border with about a dozen friends and had just rounded the corner onto Graham Avenue when officers ordered him out of the crowd. They were told to keep walking, he was told to get up against the wall.
According to the latest figures obtained by the NYCLU, the NYPD made an unprecedented amount of these stop and frisks in 2011, with 684,330 people subjected to the controversial tactic. I immediately started recording the incident on an iPhone.
First they started rifling through his pants pockets and asking him what he was doing in the neighborhood. Then they took out a flashlight and began looking in his bag, where the only thing they found was some job applications.
After filming for a few moments and seeing this wasn’t going to lead to an arrest, I moved down the block to snap a photo. “What are you recording?” said the police officer to me. The “stop and frisk,” I replied. Moments later, they let the 21-year-old go. Similar to the record shattering amount of pat-downs, this had all the similar traits: This particular subject was black, male, and innocent.
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Thank your Democrat leaders for allowing shit like this to happen. These Democrats keep pushing for more and more government control and you are seeing the direct results of this. I am not Democrat nor Republican, however, I see how dangerous it is to keep giving the government more and more control over our lives.
Huh? What? ***Entire head spins like in the Exorcist***
Hey Albert, you're some kind of genius, right? Are you aware of our Mayor – Mike Bloomberg's past party affiliation before he became "Independent"? He was (and is) a Republican you fuck-tard. He only "changed" his affiliation to "Independent" when he ran for mayor in NYC.
Stop and Frisk has nothing to do with Democrats and everything to do with the Mayor & the Police Commissioner. Also, I thought the standard lockstep response was that Democrats were TOO liberal, not too authoritarian.
Get back on the Tour Bus Albert, and snap a photo of the Ground Zero before you go back to the Midwest.
Dumbass.
At least in the midwest, my civil liberties won't be violated. Have fun living in your police state city, since that is apparently what you want…
Nice photo.
Not that Albert's comments warrant response, but I would say the abuses of power in NYC really began in large part with Giuliani's regime and have carried (albeit to a lesser extent) into Bloomberg's. The common link would be their republican affiliation. In truth, in the few times I've had occasion to speak to a police office in NY, they've actually really changed the perception for me for the better. There are still plenty of civil liberty violations and that needs to change, but that is happening in smaller towns across america as well.