Commissioner Clinton Kelly Will School You On What Not To Wear
Muted colors please, and something that doesn’t hide that cute butt of yours:
Posted: March 26th, 2012 | Filed under: Law & OrderMen of color said cops don’t bother them as long as they are dressed in a suit or in work clothes.
“It matters what you wear, just don’t look like a hoodlum,” said [. . .] a 23-year-old black man, explaining that a cop stopped him on S. Ninth St. after a nearby shooting asking what he knew about it.
[The man], then a Pathmark cashier in full uniform, said a second officer let him go.
“He said, ‘Leave him alone. He’s going to work,'” Kinard said. “Maybe if we dress nicer, they will leave us alone.”
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“I had a bright pink shirt on that day,” [another man who had been frisked] said. “I was an easy target.”