Bloomberg's stop-and-frisk policy hurt women and LGBTQ+ people. Their stories should be told too

April 3, 2020
Daily Kos

...“Absolutely this was targeting male New Yorkers, and of course Black and Latinx male New Yorkers,” says Nahal Zamani, the advocacy program manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), “But if you are a woman, or if you're trans or gender non-conforming, or if you're queer, the way that you experience your policing encounter is highly sexualized, incredibly sexualized. It was almost guaranteed that it would be.” ...

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April 6, 2020