Several thousand demonstrators have joined a silent march down New York City’s Fifth Avenue to show their defiance of NYPD’s controversial “stop-and-frisk” policy, which they say discriminates against the city’s black and Latino communities.
The march was quiet and peaceful as protesters from civil rights groups slowly walked along Central Park from Harlem to the house of New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg. However, the march ended with at least three arrests after several scuffles between activists and police officers.
New York police frequently stop and frisk individuals it considers suspicious. Last year they stopped more than 685,000 people, mostly black and Hispanic young men, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). Critics say this often results in discrimination against law-abiding citizens.
Members of labor unions and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) walked along with Occupy movement activists, students, religious groups and anti-war activists. Marchers carried banners and posters bearing slogans such as “End stop and frisk” and “Stop racial profiling.”
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What's crazy is, they're is never anything unlawful going on with these marches until the cops show up lol. These knuckle draggers with badges have got to be some of the dumbest professionals in the work force...
One word: TOOLS, they're tools
The cops do what is contrary to their job title:which to keep the peace. People get rowdy when they rowdy, and no one is going to acquiesce to these pigs, so folks get arrested. And your exactly right Krypke they are tools of the elite, here to arrest code breakers and protect the corporation!
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