Civil rights activists from across the country are planing a Father’s Day march in Manhattan.
The Reverend Al Sharpton and NAACP president Ben Jealous will be joined by the families of Trayvon Martin and Ramarley Graham Sunday to protest the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy.
The march will start at 3 p.m. Sunday and will run along 5th Avenue from 110th Street to 79th Street.
Activists held a rally in Harlem Saturday, where they said the practice is nothing more than racial profiling.
“Why are we the overwhelming majority of the people stopped, even in white areas where we don’t live?” Sharpton said.
“It’s not about people who are suspected of crime, which is the legal standard,” said Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. “It’s all about stopping and intimidating and humiliating hundreds of thousands of young people of color.”
“Whether it be a boy or girl, whether it be black white or brown, an injustice is an injustice,” said Trayvon Martin’s father Tracy.
Critics say the policy unfairly targets and humiliates hundreds of thousands of blacks and Latinos a year.
The Mayor and Police Commissioner Kelly have defended stop-and-frisk as means to get guns off the streets and save lives.
(Source: NY1)
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Why hasn’t someone figured out how to put this jerk Sharpton away already?