Philly cops recorded in racially-abusive stop-and-frisk: ‘All you do is weaken the f—ing country’

[Garion_55]

reposting from LBN

A video of two Philadelphia police officers racially abusing two pedestrians in a stop-and-frisk went viral Friday, drawing attention to problems with out of control cops from local media.

Officer Philip Nace and another officer from the city’s 25th District can be seen in the video, dated Sept. 27, as they stop two unidentified men, according to reports from the Philadelphia Daily News. The two officers stopped the men after one of the men said hi to another pedestrian in the North Philadelphia neighborhood.

“You don’t say ‘Hi’ to strangers,” Nace told him. “Not in this neighborhood,” his partner added.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/12/philly-cops-recorded-in-racially-abusive-stop-and-frisk-all-you-do-is-weaken-the-f-ing-country/

[Trillo]

1. Hasn't everyone had such an encounter? NT

[Blue_Tires]

2. If everyone DID have such an encounter, why are so many morons

still insisting racial profiling either doesn't exist, or trying to defend it?

[Trillo]

3. racism is a subset of authoritarianism

when dealing with police-on-citizen interactions. It's a layered phenom. Racism may be invoked when the situation allows (mixed race interactions), authoritarianism is what enables all of it. Thus, there's always plausible deniability.

[gollygee]

4. I have to say I'm really glad so many people have recording devices with them all the time

I mean this kind of stuff has been going on FOREVER, but hopefully with people recording it people will wake up to what's happening. Stop and frisk is a racist policy from the get-go so it isn't surprising that they'd act like that while they're doing it.