Zimmerman Martin Case

[VinnyMcFly]

New York's stop-and-frisk policy was mentioned earlier in this thread. It should be noted that that policy was is currently under examination in the federal courts. A federal judge just ruled that the NYPD has used the policy both as a method of racial profiling and for stopping people without any sort of reasonable suspicion and searching without probable cause (many times, the bulge of a wallet was the basis for the stop-and-frisk). The judge stopped short of ruling that the law itself is inherently unconstitutional, but did find that the way in which the NYPD was implementing it was unconstitutional.

Suofftopicry of the opinion: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/nyregion/stop-and-frisk-practice-violated-rights-judge-rules.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

The complete 195-page opinion: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/08/12/nyregion/stop-and-frisk-decision.html

This is not relevant to Zimmerman, but is relevant to questions of race in the USA which surfaced later in the thread.

 

[DimaS]

+1.

SiB, if you had just not replied, we wouldn't be posting here right now. This thread was done and over with until YOU started it again.

 

[TBOOKA]

Came for the Zimmerman/Martin case, stayed for the SiB posts.

 

[LuisHenrique]

I'm an advocate of those chest cameras. I wonder how many of their recordings will be refused to attorneys though, just like the way PDs currently refuse to turn over their dash cams to attorneys, or occasionally "lose" their recorded data.