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True Story – Crooked New York Cop Caught on Video Robbing Brooklyn Victim – Video

This is the story about a man, going out to celebrate his birthday with his wife. According to those who know him, he is a hard working man and on this particular occasion, he withdrew $1300 from his account for the special celebration.

This is the story of a crooked New York cop, who apparently uses ‘Stop and Frisk’ as an way to carry out his crookalogy. 

This is a story of what happens when the hard working man, his hard earned $1300 and the crooked cop cross paths on a street in New York.

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office is investigating the incident, which was captured in cellphone video footage and turned over to the prosecutors and the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau.

The man and his sister, who were protesting what they called a “robbery,” were also pepper-sprayed by the officer during the incident.

“One of the most disturbing things about the video is the other cops standing around watching and doing nothing to stop the wrongdoing,” the siblings’ lawyer, Robert Marinelli, said, according to the news site.

Lamard Joye said that the officer took $1,300—which has still not been accounted for—from his pocket and pepper-sprayed him and his sister, Lateefah Joye, who was trying to get the officer’s badge number.

“I believe that this officer made an assumption that any money Mr. Joye possessed was obtained illegally and therefore he would not report the theft. This assumption was wrong. Mr. Joye is a hardworking taxpayer deserving respect,” Marinelli said.

Lamard had taken the money out of his bank account because he was planning to take his wife out for his 35th birthday, according to the lawyer. According to the Daily News, the incident occurred a little after midnight on Sept. 16, near a housing project in the Coney Island neighborhood.

The video begins with Lamard being pushed by the police officer against a fence. The cop seems to go into the man’s pocket, pulling out the cash. Lamard immediately starts protesting.

“Give me my money,” Lamard demands.

The officer proceeds to pepper-spray Lamard, even as onlookers begin to protest.

Stop and Frisk, the infamous police procedure put in place by former mayor Mike Bloomberg, gives New York police officers the authority to walk up to anyone on the streets of New York, stop that individual and frisk them for no reason. Reports have called into question the effectiveness of the program, showing that over 90% of those stopped had no weapons or no evidence of wrong doings.

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New York Police Handcuffed And Beat Latino Man for ‘Asking a Question’ – Video

Welcome to the world of ‘stop and frisk,’ where you have absolutely no rights if you look a certain way… more specifically, if you are a certain color.

A New York man found this stop and frisk world extremely painful as he was stopped by police, frisked. And when he had the audacity to ask why he was being searched – the nerve if this man to think he had protection under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution from unnecessary search and seizure – he was handcuffed, arrested and beaten.

Two videos actually exist of the beating of Santiago Hernandez: One from a security camera, and the other from a mobile phone. Taken together, the two corroborate Hernandez’s claim that he was kicked, beaten with night sticks, and pepper sprayed. But Hernandez says even before that, he was confused by why he was stopped for a search, and why exactly that search led to his arrest.

“She just was telling me to put my hands behind my back, but ‘I’m like trying to understand what are you are arresting me for. Can you please tell me?’” he recounted to ABC7.

“I’m a person to ask questions. If I didn’t do nothing wrong, I’m trying to understand the reason, what they are thinking of me, or what was the reason at all to arrest me,” he added.

The charges against Hernandez were eventually dropped and an investigation is being conducted… by the NYPD. #Eyeroll

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Bloomberg’s Plan for Minorities – You’re Guilty until Proven Guilty

First it was “Stop and Frisk,” a controversial policy that targets minorities in New York at unprecedented levels. You know, Racial profiling.

Now, Mayor Bloomberg wants to fingerprint the residents of public housing. Residents that just happen to be poor minorities.

In other words, Bloomsburg’s plan is to assume that minorities are all criminals, that way, when they commit their eventual crime, their information wiuld already be on file.

You know, you’re guilty until proven guilty.

Bloomberg’s latest crime-fighting idea had a lot of people riled up on Friday.

The mayor wants to fingerprint more than 600,000 people who live in public housing. He said it would be done to make the projects safer.

Bloomberg was responding to questions about Federal Judge Shira Schendlin’s ruling on the stop-and-frisk program when the topic shifted to security and the New York City Housing Authority. Bloomberg said there has to be a way to make the projects safer.

“Five percent of our population lives in NYCHA housing, 20 percent of the crime is in NYCHA housing – numbers like that. And we’ve just got to find some way to keep bringing crime down there. And we have a whole group of police officers assigned to NYCHA housing,” Bloomberg said. “The people that live there, most of them, want more police protection. They want more people. If you have strangers walking in the halls of your apartment building, don’t you want somebody to stop and say, ‘Who are you, why are you here?’”

But residents who live within the confines of NYCHA buildings said the mayor’s fingerprinting idea goes too far.

“That’s like invading someone’s privacy or something. Why you want to fingerprint somebody? It is bad enough you get arrested, you get finger printed, so why you want to fingerprint us? Now Bloomberg needs to get a job. Get out of here already. He’s done. Bloomberg is done,” Chelsea Houses resident Nino Alayon said.

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Judge’s Ruling: ‘Stop and Frisk’ is Unconstitutional

A federal judge has ruled that the NYPD’s infamous stop-and-frisk practice “violated the constitutional rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers”—but didn’t order the NYPD to end the policy immediately.

Instead, federal judge Shira Scheindlin appointed an outside lawyer, Peter Zimroth, to oversee reforms to the policy that would bring it in line with the constitutional rights Scheindlin found it to violate:

These stop-and-frisk episodes, which soared in number over the last decade as crime continued to decline, demonstrated a widespread disregard for the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government, according to the ruling. It also found violations with the 14th Amendment. […]

While the Supreme Court has long recognized the right of police officers to briefly stop and investigate people who are behaving suspiciously, Judge Scheindlin found that the New York police had overstepped that authority. She found that officers were too quick to deem as suspicious behavior that was perfectly innocent, in effect watering down the legal standard required for a stop.

Zimroth, a partner at Arnold & Porter and a former prosecutor with the Manhattan D.A., will monitor the NYPD’s implementation of stop-and-frisk and ensure that it is complying with Scheindlin’s orders

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