Sometimes the bait is a small amount of cash in a stray wallet. Or a credit card. Even a pack of cigarettes can do the trick. Police in New York City leave the items unattended — on subway platforms, on park benches, in cars — and wait to see if someone grabs them. The New [...]
NY State Senator: Police Chief Said He Used Stop-and-Frisk to Instill Fear in Black Men
April 2, 2013 | Posted by
In the eyes of New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, the department’s stop-and-frisk policy was a way to instill fear in young black and Latino males, former NYPD captain and New York state Sen. Eric Adams told the court yesterday. Adams said the police commissioner made the comments in 2010, during an Albany meeting [...]
Kimani Gray’s Mother Refuses NYC Mayor’s Condolences
March 26, 2013 | Posted by
Family, friends and supporters mourned Kimani Gray at his funeral Saturday, two weeks after the 16-year-old was shot and killed by plainclothes police officers. Services for the teen were held at St. Catherine of Genoa Church in Brooklyn, with police watching over the proceedings. The New York City Police Department claims that the officers fired [...]
NYPD Officers Say Stop-and-Frisk Race Quotas Were Required
March 23, 2013 | Posted by
After painful testimony from young black males who had been affected by New York’s stop-and-frisk policy, the federal court in Manhattan this week heard from police officers who used secret recordings to show how they are pressured by supervisors to stop black and Latino males to meet quotas — or risk punishment and retaliation. In [...]
Witness Brought to Tears During Stop and Frisk Testimony
March 19, 2013 | Posted by
Testimony began in the federal court case examining New York City’s stop and frisk policy Monday with one defendant shedding tears in recounting a 2011 stop by police. The plaintiffs in the class action suit are expected to call a dozen minority citizens who feel they were unfairly stopped by police based on their race. [...]
NYPD’s Stop-and-Frisk Goes on Trial in Manhattan Courtroom
March 18, 2013 | Posted by
After years of controversy and debate over the stop-and-frisk program practiced by the New York Police Department, black and Hispanic men in the city will finally have their day in court, as the trial begins today in a lawsuit that challenges the very premise of the controversial practice. The trial in Federal District Court in [...]
Brooklyn Man Says Police Used Anti-gay Slurs in Unprovoked Beating
January 20, 2013 | Posted by
New York City police are accused of beating a Brooklyn man and using anti-gay slurs while arresting him over the weekend. Jabbar Campbell, 32, claims that police came to his home while he was hosting a gay pride party and attacked him unprovoked in the hallway of his building. Campbell said the party of about [...]
Sean Bell Remembered On Anniversary Of His Death At The Hands Of NYC Police
November 26, 2012 | Posted by
Family and friends of Sean Bell gathered in Jamaica, Queens on Sunday to remember the 23-year-old man who was wrongfully killed by New York City police on his what was supposed to have been his wedding day six years ago. Bell had been out celebrating at his bachelor party with friends when they were stopped [...]
Paid Informant Alleges To Have Spied On Muslims For NYPD
October 23, 2012 | Posted by
A paid informant for the New York Police Department’s intelligence unit says he was under orders to “bait” Muslims into saying incriminating things as he lived a double life of snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam. In an interview with the Associated Press, Shamiur Rahman, [...]
Video Exposes Racist NYC Cops During Violent Stop-And-Frisk
October 10, 2012 | Posted by
A shocking audio recording shows NYPD officers callingan African-American teenager a “fucking mutt,” and threatening him with repeated violence during a stop-and-frisk of the 16-year-old Harlem student. The profanity-laced clip, obtained by The Nation, exposes the racist behavior and violent predisposition by the three plainclothes officers who stopped the student, named Alvin, simply because he [...]
