They came to the corner of Chambers and Centre Streets in Lower Manhattan on July 29 to protest a lack of progress in reforming the NYPD and its controversial stop-and-frisk policy.
But when politicians and civil rights advocates met there Thursday afternoon to discuss new joint filings from plaintiffs for NYPD stop-and-frisk class action lawsuits and their demands to be included in the federal monitorship, they encountered quite a symbol for their situation.
Originally the conference was set to be held just outside of 1 Police Plaza, but the participants were blocked off by an NYPD barricade, which immediately set off a discussion among speakers regarding how actions such as these exemplify the issue they had gathered to discuss.
