The number of black and brown boys alone who got arrested and criminal records for the rest of their lives because they were stopped and frisked is OBSCENE. They will never shake those records, but Bloomberg wants to shake his role in giving them those records.
Most of those black and brown boys arrested during stop and frisk were arrested for small amounts of marijuana. But studies show all kids smoke weed at about the same rate. The white boys just never had to worry about being stopped.
I could walk down my block at night and White boys would be openly smoking weed on the stoops of their building whit absolutely no worry that a police officer would come. I knew that on those very night, 3 miles always, black boys were being hunted.
On two occasions in my now mostly white neighborhood, I’ve had white men/boys proposition me for drugs on the way to the corner store. Both times I was in a suit. I always remember Dorismond. Undercovers propositioned him for drug. He was offended. He wound up dead.
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