{"id":34540,"date":"2013-03-18T08:19:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34540"},"modified":"2013-03-18T08:19:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:19:42","slug":"salon-stop-and-frisk-goes-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/03\/18\/salon-stop-and-frisk-goes-on-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Salon: Stop-and-frisk goes on trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The landmark federal trial, Floyd vs. City of New York, which challenges the constitutionality of stop-and-frisk practices used by the NYPD. Lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights who are bringing the class-action suit believe it will be the \u201ctrial of the century,\u201d probing whether the police have been unlawfully stopping black and Latino young men.<\/p>\n<p>As the New York Times noted, the class-action \u201cclaims to represent \u2018hundreds of thousands if not millions of people\u2019 who experienced \u2018suspicionless and race-based stops\u2019 by the city\u2019s police officers.\u201d The NYCLU noted last week that the NYPD under Mayor Bloomberg have carried out 5 million stop and searches, over 86 percent of which on black or Latino individuals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/03\/18\/stop_and_frisk_goes_on_trial\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The landmark federal trial, Floyd vs. City of New York, which challenges the constitutionality of stop-and-frisk practices used by the NYPD. Lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights who are bringing the class-action suit believe it will be the \u201ctrial of the century,\u201d probing whether the police have been unlawfully stopping black and Latino young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}