‘Stop and Frisk’ still going strong in Brooklyn?
A Brooklyn man finding himself the subject of the New York Police Department’s stop and frisk tactic, for a second time, has filed a lawsuit against the city.
Jurard St. Hillaire, 21, saw police officers conducting a seemingly routine traffic stop in Flatbush and decided to record it. Upon noticing that they were being filmed, the officers approached St. Hillaire and proceeded to frisk him. Filming police officers on the job is not, in itself, an illegal activity.
In their attempt to avoid being filmed, unknown to the officers at the time, their stop and frisk of St. Hillaire was being captured by a security camera on nearby building.
As the film shows the police officers aggressively pushing St. Hillaire against a wall to search him.