The Hunted and The Hated doc reveals racist NYPD stop and frisk

Let Bloomberg tell it, “we” need MORE of this….smfh

The Hunted And The Hated Documentary Reveals Racist NYPD Stop And Frisk Policy

Via TheNation

Exclusive audio obtained by The Nation of a stop-and-frisk carried out by the New York Police Department freshly reveals the discriminatory and unprofessional way in which this controversial policy is being implemented on the city’s streets.

On June 3, 2011, three plainclothes New York City Police officers stopped a Harlem teenager named Alvin and two of the officers questioned and frisked him while the third remained in their unmarked car. Alvin secretly captured the interaction on his cell phone, and the resulting audio is one of the only known recordings of stop-and-frisk in action.

In the course of the two-minute recording, the officers give no legally valid reason for the stop, use racially charged language and threaten Alvin with violence. Early in the stop, one of the officers asks, “You want me to smack you?” When Alvin asks why he is being threatened with arrest, the other officer responds, “For being a f*****g mutt.” Later in the stop, while holding Alvin’s arm behind his back, the first officer says, “Dude, I’m gonna break your f****n’ arm, then I’m gonna punch you in the f****n’ face.”

Yeah. That’s how they get down in NYC.

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