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villager

(26,001 posts)
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 04:33 PM Dec 2014

If You Thought Stop-And-Frisk Was Bad, You Should Know About Jump-Outs

Iman Hadieh was standing outside a bar smoking with some new friends on the evening of October 6 when the police cars came. It was about eight young black men, and her, a woman of Palestinian origin who describes herself as white.

“I can’t tell you how many vehicles descended upon us because it all happened so fast,” she said. The cars were unmarked. But she knew it was the cops when they jumped out in black vests and hats, some with their guns drawn, she said. Some she didn’t see jump from their cars, but they appeared instead to come out of nowhere. She estimates there were 10 or 12 officers in all. Two witnesses who live on the block confirmed seeing a group of about 8 people lined up against a wall and frisked. They did not see the initial jump-out and could not confirm whether officers had their guns drawn.

Before Hadieh could take in what had happened, the officers were in their faces, touching and prodding the young men she was standing with near the corner of 14th Street NW and Parkwood Place in Washington, D.C. The men fell into line, signaling that it wasn’t their first time the police had jumped out at them. But as a light-skinned woman, it was hers.

“I knew they were ‘police’ per se, but they weren’t moving, talking or behaving in any way like police usually do,” Hadieh said. “It was highly tactical and organized, very militarized.”

The police never asked if they could search any of them, but “one by one they were searched and their pockets emptied,” Hadieh said. One of them, a 15-year-old, was in handcuffs before she even knew what had happened.

She said she asked repeatedly why the police were there and was told only that it was a “drug call.” The details of that night are fuzzy for Hadieh, who says she has had trouble sleeping since. But one question stuck in her mind, when the female officer said to her: “Do you realize that you are guilty by association right now?”

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http://www.mintpressnews.com/thought-stop-frisk-bad-know-jump-outs/200247/

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If You Thought Stop-And-Frisk Was Bad, You Should Know About Jump-Outs (Original Post) villager Dec 2014 OP
"Do you realize that you are guilty by association right now?” bananas Dec 2014 #1
No kidding. NutmegYankee Dec 2014 #2
Constitution? That's just a piece of paper. villager Dec 2014 #3
The Bill of Rights is for Rand-loving libertarians. We Democrats just trust the government. Vattel Dec 2014 #4

bananas

(27,509 posts)
1. "Do you realize that you are guilty by association right now?”
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 07:29 PM
Dec 2014

Back when I was a kid, we had a constitution.

 

villager

(26,001 posts)
3. Constitution? That's just a piece of paper.
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 07:38 PM
Dec 2014

Even "constitutional scholars" don't seem overly fond of it, these days.

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