Stop and Frisk Trial: Week Five
- New York City 04/17/2013 by Linda Perry (WBAI, New York)
An NYPD Supervisor changed his testimony several times at the Stop and Frisk trial, Floyd v. City of New York at Federal District Court in Manhattan. The lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rightschallenges the legality of Stop and Frisk, asserting violations of the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures and the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections against racially-discriminatory policing.WBAI’s Linda Perry has been following the trial.She sends this report.