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During testimony Monday in the case against NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, State Sen. Eric Adams (D-Brooklyn) recounted comments made by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly:

Kelly said that officers focused on that group of people “because he wanted to instill fear in them that every time they left home they could be targeted by police.”

That’s right …

Instill.
Fear.

also on today’s #TWiBRadio, we explored what we could possibly learn from Fox and Friends (spoiler: it’s nothing), conservatives tweeting the paper bag test, perhaps there’s a relationship between obvious studies and commonly held beliefs of extremely stupid people.

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  1. 1.

    Sly

    Kelly’s fascism and incompetence should surprise no one by now. What is somewhat surprising is that Bloomberg managed to find a more incompetent fascist than Bernard Kerick to be NYPD Commissioner.

  2. 2.

    sun tzu

    The ghost of Bull Conner is alive & well & walks the streets of Bugsy Bloomburg’s New Birmingham.

    I thought I lived in a different country.

    “Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. . . .” –Oh, wait, that was the late Jack Layton of Canada.

  4. 4.

    ChrisNYC

    There’s an interesting wrinkle with Kelly not testifying — in the NYFD discriminatory hiring case both Bloomberg and Scarpetta got ripped by a federal judge for doing an “I cannot recall” act during their depositions. The opinion basically says, “They were deposed and they lied about not knowing anything.” Here, the City fought and won to keep Kelly from being deposed. But, since he wasn’t deposed, he can’t testify, so the Adams statement stands unrebutted. Smart by plaintiffs.

  8. 8.

    Li

    It seems that the NYPD decided to fight terrorism by really getting in the heads of the terrorists. By, you know, becoming terrorists themselves.

  9. 9.

    jh

    I lived in NYC during under both Kerik and Kelly.

    The sheer, unmasked fascism I saw and experienced at the hands of the NYPD, along with the rampant corruption, is one of the factors that prompted me to leave a city that I love very much.

    You only can take so much, ya know?

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