Police unions seeking to step into the city’s shoes and continue the Bloomberg administration’s fight against Judge Shira Scheindlin’s stop-and-frisk rulings filed briefs Friday saying the rulings “impugned the character of NYPD officers.”
Echoing arguments they made in September when they attempted to intervene in the case of Floyd v. City of New York, 13-3088, and a companion case, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and four other police unions said Scheindlin’s findings that NYPD policies violated the Fourth Amendment and unfairly targeted minorities were wrong, harmed their reputations and made it more difficult to do their jobs.
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