A US appeals court has blocked changes to a controversial New York City police programme that a judge ruled had violated the rights of minorities.
In an unusual move, the Second Circuit also removed Judge Shira Scheindlin from the stop-and-frisk case.
The court said her impartiality was called into question by media interviews she gave during the trial.
The policy, in which police stop and search those they suspect of criminal behaviour, reached its peak in 2011.
In August, Judge Scheindlin ruled the New York Police Department had violated the US constitution in the way it carried out stop and frisk, but not through the policy itself.
More
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
2 comments:
No relation to Judge Judy.
Since when is merely walking down a public sidewalk "suspicious behavior"? Walking while black is also not a crime. Read the 4th Amendment to the Constitution and then come back and say that being stopped while walking to school, or to the post office, is now grounds for the police to stop you, ask for ID (VERE are ya pay-pa's!!), make you place your hands against a wall and physically search you (an otherwise INNOCENT citizen!)? When you cheered the Nazi roadblocks where police stop travelers to see IF they are committing a crime, you opened the door to a huge can of Nazi whoop-ass. Resist either one and it could your death or arrest. Next week, I hear there's an assembly where we can go through town and burn Jewish businesses down. Bring your own torch, you sheep. And polish those swastika's. They really look good in the glow of a raging bonfire of books....
Post a Comment