Activists: Cops Terrorize Teens with Stop-and-Frisk Tactics

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"It's an affront to the 4th Amendment, but people ignore it," said Matt Hudson, a legal assistant with the Judge Richard Banks Community Justice Program. "They don't know that there are remedies to this problem."

"A lot of kids talk about it," said Barbara Collins, a Villa Victoria activist. "It makes them not respect the police because they feel that the law doesn't have any respect for them. It's painful for them."

"It feels like you're guilty before you've done anything," he said as the blue police lights flickered in his eyes. "It's just because you're black."

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Activists: Cops Terrorize Teens with Stop-and-Frisk Tactics

Muse Mohamed was not at all surprised last Friday when the four bicycle cops approached him as he exited his friend's apartment in the Bromley Health housing development.

Mohamed, who says he's been stopped more than 30 times since he was 14, j...

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