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Targeting Minorities: NYPD And ‘Stop And Frisk’ Go On Trial Today In Federal Court | The New Civil Rights Movement

19.3.13

Targeting Minorities: NYPD And ‘Stop And Frisk’ Go On Trial Today In Federal Court | The New Civil Rights Movement: Today the New York City Police Department goes on trial. After more than a decade of stopping and frisking literally millions of New Yorkers, the tables have been turned and the NYPD will have to account for its actions. Floyd v. City of New York is a class-action lawsuit, brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights, that charges that the stop-and-frisk program is racially discriminatory and unconstitutional. While 53 percent of New York City’s population is Black and Latino, 87 percent of those stopped are Black and Latino.


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