At stop-and-frisk trial, New York state senator and former police
captain Eric Adams testifies about 2010 conversation with Kelly
Demonstrators protest
the NYPD's stop-and-frisk police outside of Manhattan federal court last
month. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
The commissioner of the
New York
City police department views the controversial practice of stop,
question and frisk as a means to instil fear in young African American
and Latino men, a New York state senator testified in a federal court on
Monday.
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.
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