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NYPD Sued Over Stop and Frisk Marijuana Arrests

Submitted by David Borden on

NYPD refuses to stop charging people with misdemeanor marijuana possession after stopping and frisking them and forcing them to empty their pockets so they can be charged with "public possession," so now the Legal Aid Society is suing to make them knock it off. Chronicle story here.

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