Then that is how it shall be. The stop and frisk is basic Police State BS. It should not be supported at all.
We can expect seeing lots of Giuliani on the talking-head shows.
Criminal gang-bangers and thugs have 2nd Amendment rights? Who knew?
Exactly. I find it baffling that so many people here on FreeRepublic would come down on the side of Mayor Michael “Police State” Bloomberg on this issue.
“The stop and frisk is basic Police State BS. It should not be supported at all.”
Yes, I agree, I would not tolerate being accosted on the street for a pat down, but then again we don’t have Feral Blacks prowling our neighborhood either. So while I think the Constitution should prevail, in NYC, there is going to be bloodshed without question. Oh well, the folks in Harlem and the Bronx got what they wanted, let’s just see how it all turns out.
Usually “above and beyond” is used as a good thing - they have perverted it to indicate that it has meant “illegal police actions” and the “good” thing is that they will try to temper themselves to avoid legal consequences...