Stop-and-frisk still victimizes, he says
— it was just devastating. It made me think, Can I even be in this f——-g city anymore?” Ourlicht settled his second case with the city for $10,000 in early February.
“It is inexcusable that David Ourlicht, one of the original plaintiffs in the groundbreaking stop-and-frisk lawsuit that found NYPD engaged in racial profiling against black and Latino New Yorkers, had to approach the courts again ... after his case was tried and the NYPD was found liable,” said attorney Jonathan Moore. “The actions of the NYPD officers involved in this case merely reflect ongoing community reports that these bad practices continue.”
A spokesman for the city Law Department defended the de Blasio administration for having “fundamentally changed the way the city is policed, including dramatically reducing the number of stops. Settling this case was in the best interest of all parties.” The NYPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
But Ourlicht said the experience of being stopped and frisked again — and also wrongfully arrested — shows the NYPD still largely targets people of color. With ex-Mayor Mike Bloomberg back in the news as a presidential hopeful, Ourlicht took aim at him.
“We should call out Bloomberg,” Ourlicht said. “I don’t see a difference between when Donald Trump calls Mexicans rapists and when Bloomberg says 95% of people who commit violent crimes are black and brown people so we should … throw them up against the wall.”