Stop-and-Frisk Lawsuit Against NYPD Goes Forward

A lawsuit challenging New York City's stop-and-frisk policy used by the NYPD will go forward. A federal appellate court denied the city's request to quash Floyd v. City of New York, a federal class action. 

The trial is scheduled for March 2013.

The lawsuit is led by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which calls stop-and-frisk unconstitutional racial profiling against racial minorities. A 2011 CCR study found that 41.6% of all of stop and frisks have been of Black or Latino young people. They only comprise 4.7% of the city's population. 

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