A complaint alleging racial profiling by an elite unit of the New York Police Department was revived by a federal judge reconsidering a decision to dismiss the action. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin reinstated the cause of action seeking damages for unlawful targeting of black and Latino men to be stopped and frisked. The court abandoned its earlier position that the lawsuit should fail for lack of evidence that non-minority individuals were not stopped and frisked.
December 17, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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A complaint alleging racial profiling by an elite unit of the New York Police Department was revived this week by a federal judge reconsidering an October decision to dismiss the action.
Southern District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin reinstated the cause of action, filed under the equal protection clause, seeking damages for unlawful targeting of black and Latino men to be stopped and frisked.
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