http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/12/10/3468340/jump-outs/?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=dk&utm_campaign=email
Iman Hadieh was standing outside a bar smoking with some new friends on the evening of October 6 when the police cars came. It was about eight young black men, and her, a woman of Palestinian origin who describes herself as white.
“I can’t tell you how many vehicles descended upon us because it all happened so fast,” she said. The cars were unmarked. But she knew it was the cops when they jumped out in black vests and hats, some with their guns drawn, she said. Some she didn’t see jump from their cars, but they appeared instead to come out of nowhere. She estimates there were 10 or 12 officers in all. Two witnesses who live on the block confirmed seeing a group of about 8 people lined up against a wall and frisked. They did not see the initial jump-out and could not confirm whether officers had their guns drawn.
Before Hadieh could take in what had happened, the officers were in their faces, touching and prodding the young men she was standing with near the corner of 14th Street NW and Parkwood Place in Washington, D.C. The men fell into line, signaling that it wasn’t their first time the police had jumped out at them. But as a light-skinned woman, it was hers.
“I knew they were ‘police’ per se, but they weren’t moving, talking or behaving in any way like police usually do,” Hadieh said. “It was highly tactical and organized, very militarized.”
when i first saw this i was very familiar with the term and since we don't hear it except among residents i wondered was it happening in other cities. i live in DC i am mixed because i have seen the results of open air drug markets disappear because of them i also know that some are innocent and profiled that is what bothers me. i have never had it happen to me i never hung out in the street i was always at somebody's house or on the way.
i hadn't heard this term lately and was surprised when it was depicted here, good and bad and i suppose terrorizing for innocents and criminals alike even though they go back to the same places when the cops jump out they scatter some get caught some don't and return within the hour. over all thy do work not sure what i feel as far as innocents getting scared up and that being the price of a drug free neighborhood.
