The NYPD says that stop-and-frisks are a minor inconvenience that are necessary to ensure the safety of the community and their officers. When I was stopped-and-frisked last year for being a white guy in a black neighborhood, I learned that that wasn’t quite true. Of course, minority residents of New York have known this for years: stop-and-frisks are frightening interactions where citizens are accosted by groups of armed men without reasonable suspicion, are cursed at, are threatened, are battered, and are degraded — and often times taken to jail on fabricated charges. Finally, the NYPD was caught on tape by a stop-and-frisk victim in Harlem who was able to start recording on his phone without the officers’ knowledge.
The officers give their victim three reasons for the stop: 1) he was looking at them, 2) he was wearing a hoodie, and 3) “for being a fucking mutt.” No, I’m not making this up. They then proceed to curse at him, threaten him, and then push him repeatedly. The whole interaction lasted not even 2 minutes, and from that I gathered the following brilliant quotes:
- “Why are you a fucking wiseass, I’m gonna smack you.”
- “Who the fuck do you think you’re talking to?”
- “Shut your fucking mouth, kid.”
- “I will break your fucking arm, motherfucker.”
- “Dude I am going to fucking break your arm and then I’m going to punch you in your fucking mouth.”
- “Shut your fucking mouth before I slap you.”
- “You fucking piece of shit, take a fucking walk.”
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what stop-and-frisk really feels like. This is how the NYPD treats the community it is paid to protect. And this is why stop-and-frisk needs to go.
Source article with raw audio: http://www.thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-and-frisked-being-fking-mutt-video
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Awful!! The irony is, in the “old days” most (not all) law enforcement took to heart the “to protect and serve” bit and really did earn respect. Now, they’ve replaced protect & service with “harrass & bully” and they get mad that they aren’t respected. You have to respect people to get respect. Just because you’ve got a badge and a gun does not make you worth respecting if your attitude is not “becoming” an officer.
I don’t live in a big city. I think I would have a very difficult time with “stop and frisk”. Sounds VERY unconstitutional to me.
Where is Obama now? *crickets chirp*
You stay classy, NYPD.
God bless you, Jon, for keeping up the fight.
I live in a rural area, and I see the same attitude, though not as blatant, from our own “officers”. What DHS is doing to this country through their law enforcement pawns is frightening.
I recall watching a movie or video, maybe on YouTube, of a young black male that had been STOPPED-AND-FRISKED multiple times in a short period. Like Jon he took this all the way to SCOTUS, all on his own, and WON!!!
Wish I could remember his name.
I thought obama was into civil rights, between the tsa growing larger and more thuggish under him and the use of all kinds of supposedly illegal tactics by his various agencies and the doj ignoring this type of stuff in nyc.. I guess obama is more of a fascist than a civil rights “leader”.
look on the bright side when it comes to nyc…you will be protected from buying a 16oz cup of soda! amen!