NYPD Cops Stop and Frisk Student, Call Him A ‘F**king Mutt’ (Audio)

Secretly recorded encounter provides graphic evidence of city-sanctioned brutality

The Nation has released a profanity-laced audio clip it obtained from a 16-year-old New York City student, who was stopped and frisked by police officers heard using racial epithets and threatening him with violence. Three plainclothes officers are heard saying they stopped the student, named Alvin, because he "kept looking back" at them. Another officer tells Alvin that he was stopped because he was a “f**king mutt.” The Nation’s video include anonymous interviews with NYPD cops who say they’ve been emboldened by police officials to behave this way on the streets. The audio recording will undoubtedly concern city activists who in the spring protested the city’s “stop and frisk” policy, as they believe officers unfairly target black and Latino young men. In 2011, of the nearly 700,000 people stopped by the NYPD, 87 percent were either black or Latino. (Huffington Post)

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