NYPD Officer Admits He Taunted Teen - "stop crying like a little girl,"

NYPD Officer Admits He Taunted Teen

MANHATTAN (CN) - A veteran NYPD officer testified Wednesday that he told a 13-year-old boy sitting in the back of his unmarked car to "stop crying like a little girl," after he stopped, frisked and handcuffed the teenager.

Officer Brian Dennis, a thin, balding man with gray hair, defended his actions as the second week began in a trial seeking reform of New York City Police Department's stop, question and frisk policy.

The class action, originally filed by four black men who say they were stopped without reasonable suspicion, seeks to put the NYPD under court-ordered monitoring to curb racial profiling.

Devin Almonor, a 13-year-old from Harlem, joined the lawsuit after police detained him on March 20, 2010.

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He said he spotted the teenager - a young, black male - glancing repeatedly at his car, touching his waistband and walking "briskly" away from the housing projects.

Based on that, Dennis said, he later checked off the categories "fits description" and "furtive movements" on a UF-250, the form used to record street stops.

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