“Stop And Frisk”
The first time this happened
to my son he was 15yrs. To anyone out there he used to look like 12yrs. One
morning while he was on his way to a 10:00AM college class at City Tech., two
policemen stopped him, the moment he got off the train. He said they went
through his pockets and his backpack. The questions started;
“It is 9:30AM! Why aren’t you
in school?”
“I am going to school.”
“What school are you going
too?”
“City Tech, 300 Jay Street.”
“How old are you?”
“How old are you?”
“15yrs.”
“You are 15!?”
“Yes.”
One of the officers found his
college ID and the questions continued.
“Where did you get this ID?”
“From the college, when I
registered.”
“We have to check this out.”
While all of this was
happening my son said that he felt embarrassed because people were coming into
the subway to wait on their trains. Also trains, kept stopping and off-loading
people. Everyone was looking at him. Some of them looked with eyes that were
saying another African American did something illegal.
After they thoroughly searched
him and found no illegal items, on him, but being black, they let him go. He
arrived to class 10:35AM that morning, now he had to go through the process of
explaining why he was late for class…
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