Thousands in N.Y.C. Say STOP Frisking Our Communities: No To Racial & Ethnic Profiling and the New Jim Crow
Thousands upon thousands marched in NYC's Father's Day stop Stop and Frisk march organized by civil rights and labor unions in protest of the policies of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg which are implemented by NYPD Police Commisioner Kelly. Under Mayor Bloomberg, in 2011, 685,000 New Yorkers were stopped by the Police. Of those stopped 605,328 were completely innocent of any wrongdoing. African-American youth constituted 350,743, or 53% of those stopped and Latinos comprised 223,740 or 43% of those stopped. In response to the profiling and efforts to criminalize Black and Latino youth, and following yet another fatal police shooting thousands came together to demand: End Stop and Frisk; End The "Drug War" Against Our Youth; End Mass Incarceration; End the New Jim Crow; and Stop the Implementation of ICE'S Secure Communities Program in New York and Mass Deportations. Building Bridges presents the march highlights.
produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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