Court Halts NYC Stop-and-Frisk Ruling, Removes Judge with Baher Azmy, Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
On October 31, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted the motion of Mayor Bloomberg motion to stay the remedial decision in Floyd v. City of New York, a federal class action lawsuit filed against the NYPD and the City of New York that challenges the NYPD's practices of racial profiling and unconstitutional stop-and frisks. They also remanded the case to the District Court to assign a new judge. We ll discuss what this decision means for the continuation of stop and frisk, the concerted, pernicious manifestation of racial stereotyping and criminalization of entire communities and whether judge Shira Scheindlin, who merely made public statements in which she answered critics of her ruling, was targeted for rebuke and removal from the case.
produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
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