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September 14, 2012

Protesters "Blow the Whistle" on Police Abuses in New York, Los Angeles 
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Residents opposed to the New York City Police Department’s
controversial "stop-and-frisk" policy rallied in New York City Thursday
as part of a nationwide campaign to "Blow the Whistle" on police abuses.
Protesters from Los Angeles to New York sought to draw attention to
police brutality and the disproportionate targeting of people of color.
Organizer Carl Dix joined dozens of other protesters in Harlem.

Carl Dix: "So, we'll see how the police respond. They may step back and
hope that we'll stop after a while and things can go back to normal but
we are determined to not go back to normal because normal is people
being stepped to by the police, 1,900 times each and every day in New
York City, most of them black or Latino, and almost all of them doing
nothing wrong. That kind of normal has to be disrupted."

 

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