cops follow black teens & tell them to ‘get out of the neighborhood,’ over loud speaker witness says

[Liberal_in_LA]

‘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]

1. We need to drive the police out of our communities.

I think we need something new.

[uponit7771]

2. So "large groups of teens" = yell at them to leave their own neighborhood? P.S. Cops didn't know

... if they did or didn't live there in the first place

[noiretextatique]

3. because they were black

they ASSumed they didn't belong there, ala zimmerpig.

[Rex]

4. Rights? No rights for black people. Automatic guilt based on skin color.

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]

5. business as usual Rex

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]

7. If you are black, you are the enemy automatically.

You did something illegal or will do something in the near future. Racial profiling alive and well in the NYPD.

[noiretextatique]

9. alive and well all over ameriKKKa

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]

11. Now see

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]

6. Jim Crow is back, as if it ever really left. And it's def. at home in the GOP.

[Rex]

8. Seems like Jim Crow never left.

The GOP has kept him well fed.

[noiretextatique]

10. obama's election brought out all the latent and overt racism

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

[Cali_Democrat]

13. Walking in a neighborhood while black

At least the kids weren't shot.