'Mayor Bloomberg can spend his money hiring fancy consultants who write lines for him to say in debates and scripts for him to recite that try to diminish the role he played, and the damage he caused, but I call BS. I was there.' –MMViverito
In 2010, I was working in my office on 116th Street in East Harlem when a man came in from the street to tell me that eight police officers had a teen up against the wall outside.
I followed him out to the street, and immediately saw the officers and the teen. I could not hear what was being said, but body language told an undeniable story: the police officers were completely surrounding the young man. The young man stood still, his back against the wall, as he glanced off into the distance. The expression on his face was almost absent, but something about it was so recognizable: defeat., and seeing a young man of color be stopped and frisked was, devastatingly, normal.
I realized that in this moment, I had power, and I had to use it. I walked up to the cops, and asked them what was happening that could possibly require eight officers to surround a kid. I told them who I was: a city councilwoman, a member of this community, and a Latina who was not about to just sit there and watch another Black or Brown young man be treated like a second class citizen.
Even if they were not roughed up, or taken to jail, the feeling of subjugation and oppression lasted.
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