NEW YORK (PNN) - June 18, 2012 - Thousands of people marched in silence in New York to protest against street checks by terrorist pig thug cops that rights activists say disproportionately target blacks and Hispanics.
The demonstration, called by civil rights organizations, began in Harlem and moved south through Manhattan to the residence of Mayor Michael Bloomberg in Manhattan’s posh Upper East Side.
The groups that took part in the march included National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National Action Network led by the Reverend Al Sharpton, and a union that represents health care workers, among others.
More than four million New Yorkers, most of them blacks and Latinos, have been stopped and questioned by pig thug cops in the street since 2004, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
In 2011, terrorist pig thug cops stopped 685,724 people, 53% of whom were black and 34% of whom were Latin, a trend that has held in the first three months of this year, the ACLU said on its website.
“I have been stopped and questioned by (pig thug cops) on the corner outside my house. I don’t think that happens in more powerful parts of the city,” said Jose Romero, a 28-year-old Mexican immigrant.
“It’s not normal when people are stopped when they leave their houses to go to the store,” he said.
Citing thug cop data, the ACLU said nine out of every ten persons stopped by pig thug cops are found to be innocent.
For his part, fascist Mayor Bloomberg defended the street checks and insisted that neither he nor fascist thug cop Commissioner Ray Kelly will permit abuses.
“I understand why some people want us to stop making stops. Innocent people who are stopped can be treated disrespectfully, and that is just not acceptable. Commissioner Kelly won’t tolerate it and neither will I,” he said.
Yet such treatment has become the norm in the streets of New York, and no pig thug cops are ever prosecuted for their egregious violations of the fundamental God-given rights that belong to all people.
