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Thousands march against NYC’s controversial ‘stop-and-frisk’ policy
Published: 18 June, 2012, 07:31
Several thousand demonstrators have joined a silent march down New York City’s Fifth Avenue to show their defiance of NYPD’s controversial “stop-and-frisk” policy, which they say discriminates against the city’s black and Latino communities.
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Bloomberg has defended the city’s policy, saying that it helped “take guns off the streets and save lives.”
But the NYCLU states that during frisks in 2011, a weapon was found just 1.9 per cent of the time. According to The New York Times, even in overwhelmingly white neighborhoods, police stopped more blacks than whites.
“Stop-and-frisk is a political tool, victimizing one group of people so another group feels protected,” Benjamin Todd Jealous, the president of the NAACP, said as quoted by The New York Times. “It’s humiliating hundreds of thousands of people.”
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It is wrong for NY to bend the rules and blur the line of what constitutes "suspicious" behavior. This law is unconstitutional and ineffective. Not only should it be taken down, but the law makers who penned it should loose their jobs and barred from serving a public office forever.
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