During the second week of testimony on New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk program, an officer admitted to detaining and then mocking a 13-year-old boy when he started crying. Though the boy was innocent, he was still cuffed and brought to the station:
Appearing on the stand Wednesday, police officer Brian Dennis testified that he had taunted a 13-year-old boy after he detained him. Dennis told the handcuffed child, Devin Almonor, to “stop crying like a little girl.”The teen was reportedly stopped on the street in Harlem when he reached into his pants’ waste-band. The two officers that stopped him claimed to have been searching for a firearm, but Almonor was found to be carrying no weapons. He was nonetheless handcuffed, taunted and taken to the stationhouse.Dennis conceded that he no longer thought the taunt was appropriate, but another officer, Jonathan Korabel, maintained the stop of the boy was a “lawful frisk.” He claimed the teen was jaywalking and started “yelling and making a scene” when officers tried to frisk him.Almonor is hardly the NYPD’s youngest target. In December, the police were once again sued for cuffing and arresting a 7-year-old boy for stealing $5 from a classmate. Lawsuits over police misconduct cost the city $22 million in just one year.police overkill has long been a problem in some caes equating them to Storm Troopers, we all saw the pepper spraying of innocents in the OWS, incidents.
i too have had my innocent harassings by police in the 70's, the one time i was guilty during the 68 riots in DC i was treated pretty good and releasesed the next day because of lost records", lots were there for curfew laws i was there for breaking a store window, i was drunk, after coming home from work and seeing the looting i particiated not one of my fondest memories home only a few months after discharge don't worry did not pursue a life of crime.
police often on power trips tend to take out on the citizens guilty or not whatever is screwing up their life.
police often on power trips tend to take out on the citizens guilty or not whatever is screwing up their life.
The current case, Floyd v. City of New York, has exposed many harrowing new details about stop-and-frisk. Last week, other officers testified that they were pressured to meet quotas of 5 stop and frisks, 20 summons and 1 arrest every month. Another cop recorded his superior instructing him to specifically target “male blacks 14 to 21″ years old.
assumption of guilt is what makes these somewhat extreme fixes turn into police brutality and blue murder. when peoplestop assuming and look at what really happens they may find out how they have been duped by authorities as to who's really the criminal
