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Last year, A record 601,055 people were stopped and questioned
by the NYPD. Yesterday, hundreds of NYC teens fought back by marching across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest against the NYPD’S stop & frisk policy. These teens feel they’ve been racial profiled & unfairly judged based on their ethnicity.
Amanda Mullen
Hundreds of teens who say they’ve been targeted for questioning by cops because of their ethnicity marched over the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday to protest the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy.
One marcher said cops have stopped and questioned him some 20 times.
“I have been given many different reasons,” said Romale Johnson, 20, an organizer with Make The Road New York, a sponsor of the march.
“They say, ‘You fit the description,’ or ‘You looked suspicious,’ or ‘This is just part of a routine.’”
Organizers with the Campaign for Just and Fair Policing complain that blacks and Latinos are nine times as likely as whites to be stopped, questioned and sometimes frisked. Recent NYPD stats show that only about 12% of these stops have led to an arrest or a summons.
“The police are harassing people for no apparent reason,” said Tyrice Peeples, 19, a Brooklyn high school student. “Cops stop me and my friends for no reason.”
Police brass say the practice drives down crime.
“Violence is still disproportionately centered in minority communities,” the NYPD’s top spokesman, Paul Browne, said in a statement. He noted that 97% of shooting victims last year were black or Latino.
Protesters Wednesday used plastic buckets as makeshift drums as they marched over the bridge’s pedestrian walkway under a drizzling rain.
After rallying outside City Hall, marchers lobbied City Council members for legislation to curb stop-and-frisks and create stronger oversight of the NYPD’s use of the controversial tactic, which has brought the department under criticism from various civil libertarian groups.
The marchers were joined by City Councilman Jumaane Williams, whose brief handcuffing by cops during the West Indian Day parade is being probed by the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau.
“Our community is under siege,” charged the Brooklyn Democrat, who marched with Kirsten John Foy, a top aide to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
The pair were detained by cops during the Labor Day festivities for trying to pass through a restricted area on their way to a parade reception.
Williams, who is black, has previously said that cops wouldn’t have bothered him had he been white.
But on Wednesday, Williams said he joined the march because of his opposition to rampant stop-and-frisks, though he admitted the parade flap has given him an axe to grind.
“I would have been out here anyway,” Williams said. “What happened on Labor Day makes it even more personal.”
He said he is currently drafting legislation to limit stop-and-frisks.
A record 601,055 people were stopped and questioned last year, NYPD stats show, and the department is on track to top that this year.
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Teens March Across BK Bridge To Protest NYPD’s Stop & Frisk Policy
Last year, A record 601,055 people were stopped and questioned
by the NYPD. Yesterday, hundreds of NYC teens fought back by marching across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest against the NYPD’S stop & frisk policy. These teens feel they’ve been racial profiled & unfairly judged based on their ethnicity.
Amanda Mullen
Hundreds of teens who say they’ve been targeted for questioning by cops because of their ethnicity marched over the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday to protest the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy.
One marcher said cops have stopped and questioned him some 20 times.
“I have been given many different reasons,” said Romale Johnson, 20, an organizer with Make The Road New York, a sponsor of the march.
“They say, ‘You fit the description,’ or ‘You looked suspicious,’ or ‘This is just part of a routine.’”
Organizers with the Campaign for Just and Fair Policing complain that blacks and Latinos are nine times as likely as whites to be stopped, questioned and sometimes frisked. Recent NYPD stats show that only about 12% of these stops have led to an arrest or a summons.
“The police are harassing people for no apparent reason,” said Tyrice Peeples, 19, a Brooklyn high school student. “Cops stop me and my friends for no reason.”
Police brass say the practice drives down crime.
“Violence is still disproportionately centered in minority communities,” the NYPD’s top spokesman, Paul Browne, said in a statement. He noted that 97% of shooting victims last year were black or Latino.
Protesters Wednesday used plastic buckets as makeshift drums as they marched over the bridge’s pedestrian walkway under a drizzling rain.
After rallying outside City Hall, marchers lobbied City Council members for legislation to curb stop-and-frisks and create stronger oversight of the NYPD’s use of the controversial tactic, which has brought the department under criticism from various civil libertarian groups.
The marchers were joined by City Councilman Jumaane Williams, whose brief handcuffing by cops during the West Indian Day parade is being probed by the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau.
“Our community is under siege,” charged the Brooklyn Democrat, who marched with Kirsten John Foy, a top aide to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
The pair were detained by cops during the Labor Day festivities for trying to pass through a restricted area on their way to a parade reception.
Williams, who is black, has previously said that cops wouldn’t have bothered him had he been white.
But on Wednesday, Williams said he joined the march because of his opposition to rampant stop-and-frisks, though he admitted the parade flap has given him an axe to grind.
“I would have been out here anyway,” Williams said. “What happened on Labor Day makes it even more personal.”
He said he is currently drafting legislation to limit stop-and-frisks.
A record 601,055 people were stopped and questioned last year, NYPD stats show, and the department is on track to top that this year.
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After a group of locked-out NBA all-stars took part in a charity game last weekend in South Florida, Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony said he wants to hold a similar game in New York. And on Tuesday, while promoting his new basketball shoe, Anthony’s Knicks superstar teammate Amar’e Stoudemire said the locked out players are mulling the idea of starting their own league.
“If we don’t go to Europe, we’re going to start our own league, that’s how I see it,” Stoudemire told reporters in Manhattan, where he was promoting the release of his new Nike shoe. “It’s very serious. It’s a matter of us strategically coming up with a plan, a blueprint and putting it together. So we’ll see how this lockout goes. If it goes one or two years, we’ve got to start our own league.”
Well, if either Anthony or Stoudemire gets his wish and the locked out players need a place to play, the Prudential Center would be willing to host them, according to Robert Sommer, a spokesman for the four-year-old Newark arena.
“We can do it,” Sommer said of hosting barnstorming NBA players in games. “And we would love to host Carmelo.”
The Nets are renting dates at Prudential Center, which is controlled by the NHL’s Devils, for the 2011-12 season before a planned move to Brooklyn and the new Barclays Center next fall. So, while a building like Madison Square Garden — which is owned by the people who own the Knicks — wouldn’t stage games featuring locked-out NBA players, the Prudential Center is free to entertain any act, or show, that can pay the rent.
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NBA: Prudential Center Would Love To Host Carmelo Anthony NY/NJ Exhibition Game & Other Games
After a group of locked-out NBA all-stars took part in a charity game last weekend in South Florida, Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony said he wants to hold a similar game in New York. And on Tuesday, while promoting his new basketball shoe, Anthony’s Knicks superstar teammate Amar’e Stoudemire said the locked out players are mulling the idea of starting their own league.
“If we don’t go to Europe, we’re going to start our own league, that’s how I see it,” Stoudemire told reporters in Manhattan, where he was promoting the release of his new Nike shoe. “It’s very serious. It’s a matter of us strategically coming up with a plan, a blueprint and putting it together. So we’ll see how this lockout goes. If it goes one or two years, we’ve got to start our own league.”
Well, if either Anthony or Stoudemire gets his wish and the locked out players need a place to play, the Prudential Center would be willing to host them, according to Robert Sommer, a spokesman for the four-year-old Newark arena.
“We can do it,” Sommer said of hosting barnstorming NBA players in games. “And we would love to host Carmelo.”
The Nets are renting dates at Prudential Center, which is controlled by the NHL’s Devils, for the 2011-12 season before a planned move to Brooklyn and the new Barclays Center next fall. So, while a building like Madison Square Garden — which is owned by the people who own the Knicks — wouldn’t stage games featuring locked-out NBA players, the Prudential Center is free to entertain any act, or show, that can pay the rent.
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Yesterday we posted the audio from when Drizzy stopped by Funk Flex’s show to debut his new song “Make Me Proud,” now today we have the visuals of how it went down. Check out the video below of Drizzy Drake taking over Hot 97!
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Drake Visits Hot 97 on the Funk Flex Show; Talks Serena Williams, Pusha T Subliminal Shot, Rihanna Romance; Wayne’s Jay-Z Diss and More
Yesterday we posted the audio from when Drizzy stopped by Funk Flex’s show to debut his new song “Make Me Proud,” now today we have the visuals of how it went down. Check out the video below of Drizzy Drake taking over Hot 97!
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CANON 7D – DOCUMENTARY RAW FOOTAGE – PHOTO-SHOOT WITH JASON CHRISTOPHER
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