... patterns of arrest, patterns of harassment of vulnerable groups, discriminatory use of the "stop and frisk-, overly harsh enforcement, verbal abuse - (ClarisLaw, et al.). Examples: 1. It seems like every where you turn these days police misconduct is going to be in the spotlight. From as early as Martin ... team was looking for drugs and opened fire on a 72 year old man with no criminal record. The police's justification for killing Richard Brown awoken from his sleep in the middle of the night is because he was "stumbling toward them in the darkness-. And "At least ... like, the Attorney...

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... police officers". The plaintiffs also sought for the removal of the NYPD Street Crimes Unit, the unit that the four officers who killed Diallo were in. Daniels et al. v. The City of New York et al. (1999) was brought to the Center for Constitutional Rights in the wake of the Diallo shooting and the City agreed to a settlement on December 12, 2003. The ... NYPD continued to deny these allegations (NYCLU). Now that this issue is receiving nationwide coverage following the tragic shooting deaths of unarmed, young African American men Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown by police officers, the...

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