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My name is Monroh, I currently work in retail, and I'm going to school for social work in
the fall. One incident that I had with the NYPD was when I was walking with a couple of friends
of the same community, LGBT, and of you know minority races Hispanic and African American
. We were walking through you know Park Slope, which is like an upper class area in Brooklyn
and we actually noticed an undercover car you know circling around the block we were
on an isolated block in the neighborhood you know just walking and talking. And they proceeded
to come around the corner but we didn't think anything of it because they passed by and
they noticed us but then they came around shooting around the corner again and four
of them hop out of the car and there's only three of us, and they're asking for ID's and
some type of identification and it was just you know for what reason were not doing anything
wrong you know we're just walking the neighborhood like everybody else but they proceeded to
say how there had been some break in's with automobiles and that you know we fit the description
of a couple of the youths that had been doing it but its just you know what is the general
description. I believe that they honestly profiled me because of you know my skin color
and also you know because of my you know gender expression and how I express myself. I feel
that I was targeted for no reason because I was minding my business like everybody else
you know they didn't stop other people who were crossing the street, they didn't stop
the people around the corner you automatically assumed the worst of me and the people who
were in front of us didnt get stopped as well. I dont understand why you know just because
of my skin color or you know how I choose to express myself I should be held accountable
for that or I should always have to you know watch my back when it comes to law enforcement
because at the end of the day these people are placed here to help me you know within
a situation I feel like with this whole movement they have going on that at the end of the
day I can't trust law enforcement because you guys will automatically assume that I'm
the one in the wrong and I'm not and you know your're not gonna hear me out you know, advocate
for me, you're going to automatically assume that I fit the description so I have to be
doing it which is not the case. That's the whole thing about assumptions, which is with
this whole stop and frisk thing, they patted us down and everything, we didn't have any
weapons, any paraphernelia of any sort on us and it was just you know I felt violated
because I'm normal like everybody else you know and I don't think that its fair that
I should be violated that way and you know asked to empty my pockets and show ID for
no apparent reason when I'm just making my way home just like everybody else you know.
I work a nine to five, I'm tired, I don't have time to get into you know trouble with
anybody or bother anybody I'm not that type a person and I don't believe generally anybody
is but you know to target somebody on just how they look its just very I don't know,
I just feel its very shady because assumptions is what has the world chaotic like it is now,
you know not getting to understand somebody and get to know who they are or at least have
some type of empathy towards them.