Stop and Frisk: It's Not Just For Inner City Minority Neighborhoods Anymore!
And I just want to remind the readers... this town of Paragould, Arkansas is not exactly a "town swarming with minorities" like the areas where the NYPD engaged in their stop-and-frisk harassment tactics. It was "right and just" when it happened to black people in New York's poor areas... what do the readers want to bet that it'll be met with protest by the same yea-sayers who defended this behavior in New York?
Armed Task Force to Patrol Streets
In response to a recent increase in crime, Paragould Mayor Mike Gaskill and Police Chief Todd Stovall offered residents at a town hall meeting Thursday night at West View Baptist Church what could be considered an extreme solution — armed officers patrolling the streets on foot......
Should an individual not produce identification, Stovall said his officers would not back down. Individuals who do not produce identification when asked could be charged with obstructing a governmental operation, according to Stovall.
"I'm hoping we don't run across [any] of that," Stovall said. "Will there be people who buck us? There may be. But we have a right to be doing what we're doing. We have a zero-tolerance. We are prepared to throw your hind-end in jail, OK? We're not going to take a lot of flack."
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