From Youth to Elderly, NYPD's "Stop-and-Frisk" Targets People of Color Across 3 Generations

DemocracyNow.org -- Thousands participated in a silent march across Manhattan on Sunday calling on the New York City Police Department to stop their practice known as "stop-and-frisk." Last year, NYPD officers stopped and interrogated residents nearly 700,000 times. According to the New York Civil Liberties Union, about 87 percent of those stopped were black or Latino. We speak to stop-and-frisk victims and youth organizers Carmen Perez and Antonio Melendez; long-time civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory; lawyer and Vietnam War Marine veteran John Covington; J.D. Williams, an actor who played drug dealer Preston "Bodie" Broadus on the hit HBO series, "The Wire"; Joyce Williams, a great-grandmother victimized in a stop-and-frisk incident; and organizer and activist Thenjiwe McHarris.

Watch part 1 of our video report from the protest: http://youtu.be/OGdUgnmI3eA

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[sexycandy876]

@4teepee u are not telling the God's honest truth. Get your information right

[Argot May]

Funny how racists cannot bring themselves to call themselves racists.... The N.W.O. tests stuff on the least regarded people and nations first, then they come for everyone else. It's a pattern that is easy for some to recognize.

[4teepee]

Fernando Mateo of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers has told his drivers, “Profile your passengers” for your own protection. “The God’s honest truth is that 99 percent of the people that are robbing, stealing, killing these guys are blacks and Hispanics.”

Fernando Mateo is himself black and Hispanic.

[subwayesk]

thank you for covering this issue

its nice to have fairly in-depth interviews with activists

[Bell Noor]

This is all in the name of public safety, America WANTS safety! 

[TheSONSOFLIBERTYMC]

and then you see..SEIU..tied to all that BS with the Obama campaign....

HAPPY sELECTION YEAR BS

College/education obviously doesn't mean critical thinking, even if it relates to articulating your regurgitated beliefs.

[TheSONSOFLIBERTYMC]

I wonder what the arrest statistics look like during this period of violation of at least the 4th amendment.

HOW ABOUT all the TSA violations of the 4th...USEFUL IDIOTS are the responsible for the destruction of America.

30,000 DRONES authorized by Congress.

NDAA-indefinite detention

alCIAduh "FREEDOM FIGHTERS" work with the US MILITARY in Libya..without Congress...and are now in Syria; with MI6/CIA...on the way to Iran

OBAMNEY2012.....wtfu

[rockshot100]

Now at least 23 people know that 50,000 people marched on Sunday....this is B.S.. But, this is a beginning...23 people now know about this now!