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Stopped-and-Frisked: ‘For Being a F***king Mutt’

On June 3, 2011, three plainclothes New York City Police officers stopped a Harlem teenager named Alvin and two of the officers questioned and frisked him while the third remained in their unmarked car. Alvin secretly captured the interaction on his cell phone, and the resulting audio is one of the only known recordings of stop-and-frisk in action.

In the course of the two-minute recording, the officers give no legally valid reason for the stop, use racially charged language and threaten Alvin with violence. Early in the stop, one of the officers asks, “You want me to smack you?” When Alvin asks why he is being threatened with arrest, the other officer responds, “For being a fucking mutt.” Later in the stop, while holding Alvin’s arm behind his back, the first officer says, “Dude, I’m gonna break your fuckin’ arm, then I’m gonna punch you in the fuckin’ face.”  

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   Uuuggghhhhh just kill me.

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   This video made me so angry. The audio recording is gut wrenching. I have no idea why society as a whole allows the...

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   Actually so disgusting. Fuck them.

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    this is disgusting if you want to help people, then why the FUCK would you join the police? that’s the most imbecilic...

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    Racial profiling agd quotas. Fuck.

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    this is fucking insane.

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