Tag: LAWSUITS
Floyd v. City of New York, a class-action lawsuit that’s the most wide-ranging of three recent cases against the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practice, begins hearing today. The suit, which centers around a Bronx medical student, challenges the constitutionality of the entire stop-and-frisk process, and alleges that officers are pressured to meet quotas, unfairly biased black and […]
The night of October 31, Coney Island barber Donald Franks was returning home from Home Depot, where he had gone to charge his and his family’s cell phones in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. When he walked by a nearby Key Food, he saw several teenagers running away with cops not far behind–and soon enough, […]
A group of black and hispanic supervisors has filed a class-action lawsuit against the city’s Department of Sanitation, alleging a culture that denies promotions to people of color. The suit cites some striking statistics: though 55 percent of Sanitation employees are black or hispanic, just three to five percent of managers are of color.”We still […]
A new court filing by a group of civil rights lawyers alleges that the NYPD’s insistent focus on surveilling Muslims is in violation of a 1985 legal ruling. “There is substantial persuasive evidence that the defendants are conducting investigations into organizations and individuals associated with the Muslim faith and the Muslim community in New York, […]
