New Yorkers recall ‘stop-and-frisk’ harassment

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Tameka Darden, a doting mother of an 8-year-old boy says she’s been stopped and frisked by the New York Police Department at least three times. Each time, she said, left her humiliated and angry.

Miakata Marshall and Chelsie Charles said almost everyone in their circle of friends has been stopped at least once. But the teenagers couldn’t recall a time when anyone had actually been charged with a crime.

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“I’ve been stopped at least 50 times by the police in the last 5 years,” Brown, a commercial truck driver estimated. “I didn’t need a judge to tell me what they were doing was wrong. The biggest gang in this city is the NYPD and they don’t have any respect for anyone out here,” he said in a street interview.

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“The only thing I had was a black bag from the store with an Arizona Ice Tea in it,” Darden said, her bus pulling up. “If that’s all it takes for them to stop me, a grown woman, I wonder what it’ll take for them to stop my son.”

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/08/12/ruling-confirms-what-many-new-yorkers-already-knew-of-stop-and-frisk/


thank you Ed Schultz for discussing this now on your show

Five Sobering Findings From The Federal Ruling That Held NYPD Racially Profiles
On Monday, the New York Police Department’s aggressive approach to stop-and-frisks took a major blow, with federal judge Shira Scheindlin’s ruling that the Department engages in unconstitutional racial profiling. The decision incorporates statistics showing that 87 percent of those stopped in 2011 were black or Hispanic, and testimony from more than 100 witnesses in reaching a number of alarming factual and legal conclusions about the sweeping, discriminatory, and insidious nature of NYPD stop-and-frisks:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/13/2459411/five-sobering-findings-from-the-federal-ruling-that-held-nypd-racially-profiles/

[Catherina]

1. Now what are we going to do about Ray Kelly? We can't reward him for this