Cornel West, Carl Dix to protest NYPD's 'Stop and Frisk' policy

On October 21, The Stop Mass Incarceration Network spearheaded by revolutionary communist Carl Dix plans to descend upon the Harlem precinct in non-violent protest of New York City's "Stop and Frisk" policy...

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On October 21, The Stop Mass Incarceration Network spearheaded by revolutionary communist Carl Dix plans to descend upon the Harlem precinct in non-violent protest of New York City’s “Stop and Frisk” policy.

The outcry is an attempt to get the police department to change its policy, which the organization cites as unjustly targeting minority groups.

“They stop mostly blacks and Latinos and they will tell you, ‘We’re not practicing racial profiling, we’re holding down crime,’” Dix told NewsOne. “But if you only stop overwhelmingly blacks and Latinos, you are practicing racial profiling.”

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