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Aug 14, 2013

NEW YORK, CMC - A Grenadian American legislator has added his voice to a United States federal court ruling against the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) stop-and-frisk tactics, saying the ruling is not a cause for celebration but a “new chapter” in America’s civil rights movement. “It was a victory for the thousands of men and women of color in this city who have been wronged and suffered the embarrassing indignity of being physically stopped, questioned and frisked by law enforcement simply because of the color of their skin,” said New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams, a frequent critic of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policies. Williams, who represents the largely Caribbean 45th Council District in Brooklyn, New York, was unlawfully arrested by NYPD officers two years ago during the West Indian American Day Carnival Parade on Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway.

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