The city's enforcement of COVID-19 social distancing guidelines is being compared to stop-and-frisk.
and lawmakers that the police response to the COVID-19 pandemic is not unlike the city’s racist enforcement of stop-and-frisk.
On Friday, data released by the New York Police Department showed similar racial disparities. From March 16 to May 5, police issued 374 summonses for social distancing violations; 52% were to Black residents and 30% were to Hispanic residents. “I’m responsible, the police commissioner is responsible,” he said Friday in an interview on WNYC. “That sometimes takes retraining, that sometimes takes more work from the supervisors at a precinct level.”
have shown police officers using excessive force when arresting Black and Hispanic New Yorkers for social distancing-related infractions.New York City police officers wrestle a man to the ground while making an arrest in the Brooklyn borough of New York on April 29.
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