New York, Apr 2 (ANI): The commissioner of the New York City police department said the controversial practice of stop, question and frisk was a means to instill fear in young African American and Latino men, a court has heard.
NY State senator Eric Adams, who retired from the NYPD after rising to the rank of captain during a 22-year career, said commissioner Ray Kelly described his views on stop and frisk during a July 2010 meeting in the office of then-governor David Patterson.
Adams had traveled to Albany for a meeting on 10 July 2010 with the governor to give his support for a bill that would prohibit the NYPD from maintaining a database that would include the personal information of individuals stopped by the police but released without a charge or summons.
In discussing the bill, which ultimately passed, Adams said he raised the issue of police stops disproportionately targeting young African American and Latino men, the Guardian reports.
Adams testified that Kelly stated that he targeted and focused on that group because he wanted to instil fear in them that every time that they left their homes they could be targeted by police.
Adams told the court he was stunned by the commissioner's claim.
According to the paper, Adams's testimony marked the latest in a series of explosive allegations leveled against the NYPD in an ongoing trial targeting the department's stop-and-frisk practices. (ANI)
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