Fuck the police.

Faggot ass cops.  I got pulled aside for one of their "random" searches posted up by various train stations here in NY...on 49th street by Rockefeller Center ...on the weekend...in the midst of hundreds of tourists with large obnoxious shopping bags, duffle bags, suitcases etc...they pull my black ass aside to "check" my bookbag.  I hate to say it but I was the only black face for miles around and I know that's why they did it.  It's not the first time, I'm always getting pulled aside for those things.  Maybe it's because I give them dirty looks when I pass by...who knows but that day the cop jumped out of nowhere.  To top it off, the stupid fucks didn't even find the weapon I had on me.

Did I just admit to carrying weapons?

Pretty much.



A Queens woman who was pepper-sprayed for dashing down an up-only subway staircase is suing the city - and the cop who hauled her away in cuffs - for $3 million.

Naeema Screven says she was only trying to catch her train, which was pulling into the station, when she zipped down to the A line platform at the Broadway station in Brooklyn.

One side of the stairway was designated "down" and the other side "up," the complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court said.

The "down" side of the stairway was crowded, so she admits she crossed under the yellow tape to the "up" side.

When she reached the platform, she was stopped by Officer Elix Hernandez and asked to show identification.

When she was told she was being arrested, the suit says, she flipped open her cell phone to call her mother and was doused in the face with pepper spray and handcuffed.

"I think if I did something wrong he could have given me a warning," Screven, 21, told the Daily News. "I never thought in a million years that something like that would happen to me."

Police say the problem wasn't that she flipped open the phone - the problem was she flipped out.

"She began to yell and scream, causing public alarm," said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.

"The woman then started swinging her arms, preventing the officer from handcuffing her. The officer used pepper spray to aid in effecting the arrest," he said.

Screven was charged with disorderly conduct and spent 15 hours in a police lockup.

The suit claims she was falsely accused of knocking over other straphangers. Running down an "up" staircase created a "dangerous condition," Browne said.

Nonsense, said Screven's lawyer, Alan Levine.

"It was absolutely wrong that he used this type of force and overreacted for violating a Transit Authority rule. TA rules of conduct say it is a violation to interfere with access onto or off of an escalator, stairway or elevator," Levine said.

Screven said the incident has left her emotionally scarred.

Her mother and sister are court stenographers in Queens Criminal Court, and she was raised to respect the law, she insists, but her trust in the NYPD has been shaken.

"I'm afraid of him [Hernandez], and I'm afraid of stepping foot in that station," she said.

Screven had filed a complaint against the cop with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, Browne said, but the officer was exonerated regarding the use of pepper spray.

Her "allegation that she was thrown to the ground was unsubstantiated," he added.

 

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  • 11/14/2008 12:10 PM gypsyleif wrote:
    who says racism isnt alive and well ? Problem being that now they have badges and just have to say....homeland security. What a joke. Do they still wonder why people dont like cops? Oh, and yes it was because your black.
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    1. 11/16/2008 10:25 PM Miss Shay wrote:
      Yes it is, I completely agree.  Not to say that every single cop or law enforcement agent is racist and have immoral agendas...but A LOT of them are and do.  So sad...this is 2008 right?
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