F**K THE POLICE! CORNEL WEST GETS ARRESTED PROTESTING THE NYPD'S ILLEGAL STOP & FRISK TACTICS!

The NYPD collared some 30 protesters Friday - including Princeton University prof Cornel West - during a Harlem demonstration against police stop-and-frisks, not Wall Street greed.
Hundreds gathered outside of the 28th Precinct stationhouse in Harlem Friday afternoon in a show of opposition to the NYPD's rampant use of the controversial tactic. Those who were arrested linked hands, blocking the entrance to the stationhouse.

"You have to fight arbitrary police power," said West, who was pinched earlier this week during an Occupy Washington D.C. protest. "We want to stop stop-and-frisk."

The NYPD, which stopped, questioned and often frisked a record 601,055 people last year, has come under fire for targeting blacks and Latinos in disproportionate numbers - and for stopping innocent people in the overwhelming majority of cases.

"You have to do nothing else except live in your neighborhood and be a young black or Latino male to be a suspect," Matt Main, of the National Lawyers Guild, told the Daily News.

Mayor Bloomberg has staunchly defended the tactic, and police brass say the initiative saves lives, particularly in minority communities.

The protesters had earlier marched on the sidewalk along 125th St. before massing outside of the stationhouse, chanting: "Stop and frisk has got to go!"

Among those arrested was John Hector, a Brooklyn Navy veteran, who is black. He said he was stopped and frisked last spring. "I served this country and I fought for this country," Hector said. "I come back here and I am treated like a criminal."

Many of those who were booked were eventually released from the 33rd Precinct stationhouse in Washington Heights, where a crowd gathered to greet them.

"People are so proud," Greg Allen, 39, of Harlem, who is white, said after being freed. "People are overwhelmingly like, 'Finally, I get to do this!'"

The protest was not part of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street sit-in for social change - but some said it was inspired by the huddled masses at Zuccotti Park.

"Occupy Wall Street has definitely started a wave and every other protest that goes on is able to ride that wave," said Christina Gonzalez, 25, of Far Rockaway.

The charges against West in the D.C. bust were dropped after he spent a night in jail. The Ivy League professor and famous civil rights activist has been a presence at the Occupy Wall St. encampment, which many in the Harlem crowd said have been marked by few black or Latino protesters.

"I realized there wasn't a lot of black and Latino presence at Occupy Wall Street," said Unique Garcia, 25, of East Flatbush. "Blacks and Latinos are more affected by what's going on, but they don't come out."

I was on my way home when we got stuck in traffic while the protestors were crossing 125th street! These people are willing to get arrested to protect your rights! Nobody's stupid in New York and if you live in Brooklyn, Queens or The Bronx you would know that the NYPD is using Illegal stop & frisk tactics to make collars! What they do is designate an area & put pairs of rookie cops on every corner. They stop & frisk every young black & hispanic male walking by, Maybe 3 out of 10 are dirty, and that's how they make their collars! But if they are really thirsty in the winter time they stand in the buildings for the heat & ask them where they are coming from & if they have ID to prove they live in the buildings, if they dont! They get arrested for tresspassing! That's how the city gets it's money! Once your arrested & put before a judge you have to pay a court fee! SMFH! You have to pay them for wrongfully arresting you!


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