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FEDS: STOP & FRISK IN NYC IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL (DETAILS)

In News on August 12, 2013 at 10:59 am

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Millions of Black and brown New Yorkers can exhale: a federal judge has ruled that NY’s stop and frisk policy is unconstitutional. The decision was reached this morning after a two month trial in which federal judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled that police officers have for years been systematically stopping innocent people in the street without any objective reason to suspect them of wrongdoing, violating the Fourth Ammendment.
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NO APOLOGIES, SETTLEMENT FOR CENTRAL PARK FIVE (DETAILS)

In News on April 17, 2013 at 12:44 pm

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Last month I attended a screening, sponsored by the National Association of Black Journalists, of The Central Park Five, the Ken Burns and Sarah Burns and David McMahon documentary about the railroading of five innocent Black and Latino teens accused and convicted of raping and beating a white female jogger in Central Park in April of 1989. The case shocked the city and nation and introduced a new vocabulary to describe out of control Black and Latino teens: ‘wilding’ and ‘wolf pack’.

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NYPD DECLARES MARTIAL LAW IN BROOKLYN (DETAILS)

In News on March 15, 2013 at 3:33 am

 NYPD DECLARES MARTIAL LAW IN BROOKLYN (DETAILS)

The NYPD has turned East Flatbush, Brooklyn into a State of Exception, claiming emergency powers to suspend the constitutional guarantees of the citizenry. This comes after several nights of protests after cops killed 16 year old Kimani Gray who, allegedly, carried a concealed weapon.

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MODEL MINORITIES: NYC ARTIST TO MOUNT STOP & FRISK FASHION SHOW (DETAILS)

In News on October 4, 2012 at 3:08 pm

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Black Hooded Sweatshirt
Black Sweatpants
Red Hooded Sweatshirt,
White T-Shirt
Yankees Caps
Jeans
Any Type of Graphic T-Shirt
Sneakers
Work boots

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German Police Fired 85 Bullets In 2011 (DETAILS)

In News on May 10, 2012 at 1:57 pm

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Looks like NYPD Police commissioner Raymond Kelly will need to take a trip to Germany to discover why, in a nation of 80 million citizens, German police fired only 85  bullets at humans last year.  New York has 8 million people and in one day alone, cops fired 73 bullets in Crown Heights Brooklyn last September Read the rest of this entry »

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