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Federal Judge Rules New York stop & Frisk Violates Minority Rights

shrubnose

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In a blistering decision today,Monday, Aug,12,2013, Judge Shira A, Scheindlin found that the New York City Police had developed a policy of indirect racial profiling that targeted young minority men for stops. and had been stopping and frisking innocent people in the street without any objective reason to suspect them of wrongdoing.

Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/nyregion/stop-and-frisk-practice-violated-rights-judge-rules.html?_r=0


This unconstitutional violation of young minority men's rights has been going on for quite a while.

It should never have started.
 
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