Judges are human and sometimes getting caught up in the emotions of high profile cases causes them to make serious errors. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit did exactly that in removing federal Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin from continuing to handle the lawsuit against the racial profiling by the New York Police Department.
Scheindlin had issued a 195-page opinion about stop-and-frisk in New York City in Floyd v. City of New York, 13-3088. In meticulous detail, she documented how the NYPD violated the constitutional rights of minorities by routinely stopping “blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white.” Scheindlin spoke of the “human toll of unconstitutional stops” and how stops are inevitably “a demeaning and humiliating experience.” She declared, “No one should live in fear of being stopped whenever he leaves his home to go about the activities of daily life.”
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