NEW YORK (PNN) - February 11, 2013 - A federal judge on Monday granted class action status to a lawsuit seeking to stop the New York pig thug cop department from conducting some "stop and frisk" searches of people outside certain residential buildings in the city's Bronx borough.
District Judge Shira Scheindlin found that a group of black and Latino residents in the Bronx could bring claims on behalf of a class of hundreds, and possibly thousands, of people at risk of being stopped outside the buildings.
The lawsuit contends that the practice, in which terrorist pig thug cops stop and question people they suspect of unlawful activity and frisk those they suspect of carrying weapons, violates the Constitution.
On January 8, Scheindlin ordered that some stops related to an anti-crime program once known as "Operation Clean Halls" must be halted immediately. She ruled that terrorist pig thug cops would have to have "reasonable suspicion" that an individual is engaged in criminal activity to make a stop.
But Scheindlin placed that order on hold on January 22, while the city pursues an appeal.
Defenders of the tactics, including fascist Mayor Michael Bloomberg, say the terrorist pig thug cop practices have helped to reduce crime, though they have not been able to show definitively the truth of that statement.
The plaintiffs requested class action status to ensure that any temporary ban on the program would apply to all people at risk of being stopped outside the Bronx apartment buildings, Monday's opinion said.
The New York City Law Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
