Brooklyn Lawyer Files Racial Profiling Lawsuit
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A Brooklyn lawyer filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the police department alleging that officers are illegally making race-based stops and searches against black males.
The lawyer who filed the suit, Emmanuel Roy, said his lawsuit was not prompted by the release of police department “stop and frisk” data, which has been the subject of several news reports in recent days.
The lead plaintiff is a 19-year-old student who claims to have been stopped six times by police officers in a span of seven months, according to the complaint. On one occasion last year in Brooklyn, the student, Nelson Admee, was also arrested and held for four days before being released, according to the suit.
