An op-ed piece by Nicholas K. Peart, reflecting on the five times this 23-year-old community college student has been stopped and frisked by police.
…last year, the N.Y.P.D. recorded more than 600,000 stops; 84 percent of those stopped were blacks or Latinos. Police are far more likely to use force when stopping blacks or Latinos than whites. In half the stops police cite the vague “furtive movements” as the reason for the stop. Maybe black and brown people just look more furtive, whatever that means.