Photograph: Henny Ray Abrams/Reuters |
Scheindlin had ruled that the city violated the constitution in the way it carried out its program of stopping and questioning people. She appointed an outside monitor to oversee major changes to the NYPD, and ordered reform to police training and supervision, among a range of other measures.
The ruling on the unconstitutionality of stop-and-frisk stands, but those changes will now be delayed pending the outcome of the city's appeal, and Scheindlin will no longer be involved in the case. Jonathan Moore, a lead attorney in the federal lawsuit challenging the department's stop-and-frisk practices, said was "unprecedented".
"Basically, this court is saying to the citizens of New York, who have followed this case and who were very uplifted by the fact that a federal judge stood up to protect the rights of all citizens of the city of New York … this is the panel of the second circuit saying: 'Drop dead, New York'," Moore said.
"It's embarrassing, it's unprecedented and it's a travesty of justice that this panel did this."
... Federal
court says Shira Scheindlin showed appearance of bias when she ruled
that stop-and-frisk was unconstitutional. The changes to New
York's stop-and-frisk policy will be stayed pending the outcome of an
appeal by the city. A federal appeals court has blocked a judge's
ruling that demanded changes to the New York police department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy and ordered she be removed from the case.
In a victory for the outgoing mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, the court said Shira Scheindlin's ruling, in which she declared the practice to be unconstitutional, would be stayed pending the outcome of an appeal by the city.
... Sheindlin ruled in August that police officers violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of people by wrongly targeting black and Hispanic men. In addition to appointing an outside monitor to oversee police, she ordered a pilot program to test body-worn cameras in some precincts where most stops occur.
The city asked the second circuit for a stay on the ruling, and the remedy measures. But in Thursday's ruling, the second circuit went significantly beyond the city's demands, ordering that the case be reassigned to another judge because Scheindlin had violated the judicial code of conduct by compromising the need for impartiality. The court said it had been influenced in part by a series of media interviews and public statements given by Scheindlin, in which she responded to criticism.
The court cited comments made by Scheindlin in articles in the New York Times, the New Yorker and elsewhere responding to public criticism of her by Bloomberg and police commissioner Ray Kelly.
Campaigners against stop-and-frisk say Scheindlin was the victim of a whispering campaign orchestrated by the city. Throughout the trial, the mayor and the police commissioner attacked Scheindlin in media interviews and speeches, but declined to testify in court.
The pair criticised Scheindlin as being "in the corner" of civil liberties activists campaigning against stop-and-frisk while an internal report by Bloomberg's office, shared with the New York Daily News in May, sought to portray the judge as biased against law enforcement.
Moore criticised the second circuit for removing Scheindlin from the case.
Moore said he and his team would file a motion for re-hearing "en banc" – a legal procedure requesting all the active judges of the second circuit to weigh in on the case. He said the motion would be filed "as soon as we can".
Bloomberg's tenure as mayor ends in December, with New York City due to vote for its next leader on Tuesday. Polls shows that Democrat Bill de Blasio, an outspoken critic of stop-and-frisk, is the clear favourite.
De Blasio has made the policy a central issue of his campaign, with his mixed-race son featuring prominently in his campaign adverts praising the Democratic nominee's stance on stop-and-frisk.
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[SIDEBAR: First, please do read the link (above) where the fellow human was, when the same people basically did to Russia what is also done to all countries and the U.S.A. is NO EXCEPTION, "ZioCon" US-ZioCon Empre Ruthless Mass Murdering Of Our Own Species.
Exceptionalism got to be 'THE CHOSEN' (BLOOMBERG ET AL) choosing to farm Americans and Palestinians and Russians and and and name a human flesh the US ZioCon Empire didn't want to use in the machine of Apartheid - Genocide.
Israel Buys the US Congress: Sabotaging the US-Iran Peace Negotiations
By Prof. James Petras Global Research, November 02, 2013 http://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-buys-the-us-congress-sabotaging-the-us-iran-peace-negotiations/5356541
The corruption and
degradation of US democracy is made possible by the equally compromised
and corrupted ‘respectable press’. Media critic, Steve Lendman, has
pointed out the direct link between Israel and the mass media in his
investigation of the New York Times. The leading (‘fair and balanced’)
journalists reporting on Israel have strong family and political ties to
that country and their articles have been little more than propaganda.
Times reporter Ethan Bronner, whose son served in the Israel Defense
Forces, is a long-time apologist for the Zionist state. Times reporter
Isabel Kershner, whose ‘writing’ seem to come straight out of the
Israeli Foreign Office, is married to Hirsh Goodman an adviser to the
Netanyahu regime on ‘security affairs’. The Times bureau chief in
Jerusalem, Jodi Rudoren, lives comfortably in the ancestral home of a
Palestinian family dispossessed from that ancient city.
The
Times unflinching pro-Israel posture provides a political cover and
justification for the corrupted US politicians as they beat the war
drums for Israel . It is no surprise that the New York Times, like the
Washington Post, is deeply engaged in disparaging and denouncing the
current US-Iran negotiations – and providing ample space for the
one-sided rhetoric of Israeli politicians and their US mouthpieces,
while studiously excluding the more rational, pro-rapprochement voices
of experienced former US diplomats, war-weary military leaders and
representatives of the US business and academic communities.
In
late October, 2013, Former Israeli Defense Intelligence Chief Amos
Yadlin spoke of ‘having to choose between ‘the bomb’ or the bombing’ – a
message which immediately resonated with the 52 Presidents of the Major
American Jewish Organizations (Daily Alert, October 24, 2013). On
October 22, 2013, Israel ’s Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, called
for harsh new sanctions on Iran and insisted that the US use them as
leverage to demand that Iran agree to entirely abandon its peaceful
nuclear energy and enrichment program.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon
affirmed that ‘ Israel will not accept any deal that allows Iran to
enrich uranium’. It is Israel ’s position to threaten war (via the US )
if Iran does not submit to unconditional surrender of its nuclear
program. This defines the position of all the major pro-Israel PACs,
Super PACs and AIPAC. They in turn proceed to dictate policy to their
‘lick-spittles’ in the US Congress. As a result, Congress passes even
more extreme economic sanctions on Iran in order to sabotage the ongoing
negotiations.
To counter the campaign to
strangle Iran ’s oil economy, promoted by Israel ’s flunkeys in the
Congress, the Iranian government has offered generous contracts to the
US and EU oil companies (Financial Times 10/29/2013, p 1). Existing
nationalist provisions are being removed. Under the new terms, foreign
companies book reserves or take equity stakes in Iranian projects. Iran
hopes to attract at least $100 billion dollars in investments over the
next three years. This stable country boasts the world’s largest gas
and the fourth largest oil reserves. Because of the current US ( Israel
)-imposed sanctions, production has fallen from 3.5 million barrels per
day in 2011 to 2.58 million barrels per day in 2013. The question is
whether ‘Big Oil’, the giant US and EU companies have to power to
challenge the ZPC-stranglehold over US-EU sanction policy. So far, the
ZPC has dominated this critical policy and marginalized ‘Big Oil’ using
threats, blackmail and coercion against US policymakers. This has
effectively shut out US companies from the lucrative Iranian market.
As
the US and the 5 other countries attempt to negotiate with Iran , they
face enormous obstacles overcoming Israel ’s power over the US
Congress. Over past decades Israel ’s agents have bought the loyalties
of the vast majority of Congress people, training them to recognize and
obey the whistles, signals and script from the war mongers in Tel Aviv.
This
‘Axis of War’, has inflicted enormous damage on the world resulting in
the deaths of millions of victims of US wars in the Middle East,
Southwest Asia and North Africa . The gross corruption and widely
recognized bankruptcy of the US legislative system is due to its slavish
submission to a foreign power. What remains in Washington is a debased
vassal state despised by its own citizens. If the ZPC controlled
Congress succeeds once again in destroying the negotiations between the
US and Iran via new war-like resolutions, we, the American people, will
have to pay an enormous price in lives and treasure.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-buys-the-us-congress-sabotaging-the-us-iran-peace-negotiations/5356541
HIGH TIME THE NY TIMES GET A COSMIC REALITY ENEMA, The Year Is 2013, New York Times Wannbe USZioCon Global Forever & Ever & Kill All The Men, Women, Children Who Disagree
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