NY: Boot to Stop-and-Frisk Judge Won’t Kill Rulings

Barbara Leonard reports thet

After controversially booting the federal judge who ruled against New York City’s stop-and-frisk policing practices, the 2nd Circuit refused to vacate her ruling Friday.

U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin had made history on Aug. 12 when she found that the New York City Police Department trampled the Fourth Amendment and the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause by unconstitutionally targeting minorities with stop-and-frisk tactics.

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