A Critical Civil Rights Tool Is on the Chopping Block
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The Marshall Project
March 8, 2017

“Imagine that a black man is stopped and frisked by New York Police Department officers. When he asks why he’s being stopped, one officer answers, ‘for being a fucking mutt.’ Having no reason to arrest him, they let him go. Now suppose encounters like this happen not only to one man but to New Yorkers of color by the thousands.”

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