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They were just walking down the street: Park Slope cops tell black teens to get out of the neighborhood, witness says
In their patrol cars with the lights and sirens on, cops followed the group of teens before demanding they leave the neighborhood, a witness said. A commanding officer said the force has had trouble with teens loitering at Atlantic Center Mall which is a mile and a half away from where the incident occurred.
Cops protecting tony Park Slope, Brooklyn, trailed a group of black teens in their patrol car and ordered them to get out of the neighborhood, a stunned witness claimed.
Sara Bennett said five teens were walking along Ninth St. between Sixth and Seventh Aves. at 2:45 p.m. on Sept. 22 when she saw an NYPD patrol car following the youths with its lights and sirens on.
Then, over the loudspeakers, a cop told the teens to leave the area, Bennett said.
I was upset by (the) police behavior, Bennett wrote on her Facebook page Wednesday. I notified my city council person (Brad Lander) about what I had witnessed. His office told me I should voice my concern at a precinct council meeting, so I did.
At the meeting, Bennett said she was really, really upset and disturbed by what happened.
Not by the kids, but by the way the police were yelling at them to get out of the neighborhood," Bennett said. "They were just walking down the street."
Commanding Officer Capt. Frank DiGiacomo said his officers have been on the lookout for groups of young people loitering at nearby Atlantic Center Mall who have started fights and robbed businesses.
"When one or two are hanging out, it's never a problem, but when we have large groups of kids together and we don't ask them to move or go somewhere else, they become a larger group, and that's when we get assaults," he said according to DNAinfo, which first reported the story.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/cops-black-teens-park-slope-witness-article-1.1960584
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)I think we need something new.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)... if they did or didn't live there in the first place
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)they ASSumed they didn't belong there, ala zimmerpig.
Rex
(65,616 posts)And twice as easy for cops to pick on black kids, it seems. What year and country is this again? I forget. Racist Police Land?
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)this is what they get paid for, in their minds. they don't grasp that black citizens pay for their protection and service too.
Rex
(65,616 posts)You did something illegal or will do something in the near future. Racial profiling alive and well in the NYPD.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)unfortunately. i am black and i thank goodness i do not drive a car right now, in post-racial ameriKKKa. the only good thing about the teabaggers is that their racism has eliminated the post-racial ameriKKKa bullshit. racism is alive and well, as the traditional enforcers of racism keep proving to us every single day. thank goodness most americans see through this bullshit.
JustAnotherGen
(31,780 posts)These kids should move to Atlanta where it's the exact opposite. I read it at DU -
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=907900
There you have this oppressive group of black people that have their boots on the neck of - oh bother. I need to go see about a Heffalump and eat some honey.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)The GOP has kept him well fed.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)for the world to see. except for the deluded assholes of america. that would be a GREAT name for their country: the united states of deluded assholes
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Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)At least the kids weren't shot.