Frederick Joseph@FredTJoseph
For those who need more context about how devastatingly racist #stopandfrisk was and why no Black or brown people should support Mike Bloomberg, I’ll tell a personal story.

I was in college during the height of stop and frisk in NYC…

It was commonly known amongst young Black and brown people that police weren’t just randomly stopping us, they were harassing us — and there was nothing you could do about it.

One night I was heading home from class
One night I was heading home from a late class at Hunter College, which is on the upper east side of manhattan.

I decided to study at a coffee shop near there for about 2 hours before going home. I left at about 11pm.

As I walked to the train I was stopped by a group of police.
I was the only person walking on that side of the street besides the police and immediately became nervous.

The officers looked at me and I’m sure I had a look of fear —

“What are you doing around here this time of night?” One asked.

“Coming from school.” I answered
“A bit late for that. Where do you go?” Another officer answered

“I go to Hunter” I responded

“That doesn’t make sense… classes ended hours ago. You’re lying.” He responded

“I was studying.” I said

“What’s in the bag?” He responded

I told him it was my books and Laptop.
The original officer then proceeded to snatch my bag and while the other two officers began yelling for me to face the wall next to me.

I began to have an anxiety attack and started hyperventilating.

I tried my best to move to the wall but couldn’t.

I said loudly, “you broke my laptop!”

One officer responded, “find the number online for complaints and take it up with them.”

I asked for their badge numbers — and they continued walking away. I obviously didn’t dare to chase them down.

I called the number the next day, and the day after, and weeks later … nothing.

Long story short, I had to work extra hours to buy a new laptop and never took night classes again nor stayed out to study near school.

Mike Bloomberg and stop and frisk only further emboldened the entitlement of racism in the NYPD and destroyed any faith in the police for people like myself.

Mike Bloomberg defending that program is disgusting. No weak apology or donations can fix the destruction he caused.

A man capable enabling that type of subhuman treatment of people of color is completely unfit for presidency.

This is what @MikeBloomberg thinks of #stopandfrisk and people like me.

He is a racist and I hope none of you support him. His hollow apologies because he is running for President are terrible.

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— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) February 14, 2020

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The only African American in attendance at this Pete Buttigieg town hall was a hired staffer that Pete made run around and hold the microphone for white questioners while kneeling with his head bowed. pic.twitter.com/R1ZquRFqQJ

— ᏔმƦ𝔢ჳ💤 (@mooncult) February 7, 2020

I think it’s just the coordinators who are not going. Nothing was said about the Rams position coaches.

The main thing about the combine is not watching the underwear competitions, it’s interviewing players. Nothing was said about whether the Rams were scaling that back or not.

Yeah you can skip the workouts. But can you skip the interview process? We don;t know how the Rams are approaching that. If I had to guess I would say that no, they would not scale that back, it’s too valuable.

Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
In a possible wave of the future, Broncos’ HC Vic Fangio and Rams’ HC Sean McVay will attend the scouting combine, but Fangio is leaving home his assistant coaches and McVay is doing the same with his coordinators

More.

. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28702456/sources-broncos-rams-cutting-scouting-combine-attendance

Both organizations believed there was better use of their time than to attend the combine en masse, sources told ESPN. Though it did not drive either team’s decision, there also is a hefty financial savings for each organization by not having everyone travel to Indianapolis.

Hey Snow. I edited your post. Basically, the way to post a youtube is just to dump the url naked into the post box, and when you post, the site does the rest. No need for any added script like with posting images.