Those Most Likely to Be Stopped and Frisked in Trump's America Are Those Not Voting for Him

By Charles Pierce, Esquire

01 October 16

ear Constitutional Conservatives: I've been checking in with Reuters, and wondering something.

Where y'all at?

With the race tightening between Trump and Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton in the final weeks before the Nov. 8 election, the Republican candidate recently began wooing African-American voters. Stop-and-frisk, however, has been the target of protests and successful legal challenges in New York and other big American cities in recent years as a tactic that unfairly singles out minority citizens and violates their civil rights. In the tactic, officers stop pedestrians, question them and then search them for weapons or contraband. At the town hall, Trump praised stop-and-frisk, according to an excerpt of the interview released by Fox News. He made his statement in response to an audience member's question about what the New York businessman would do to reduce crime in predominantly black communities across the nation, said the two people, Geoff Betts and Connie Tucker.

Alexandra Jaffe of NBC News tweeted out the complete answer given out by El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago.

Sean Hannity, the Trump campaign's finger-puppet in chief, hosted the town hall. In his off hours, Sean plugs an online course on the Constitution taught by the good folks at wingnut diploma mill, Hillsdale College.

Me? I'd rather be taught juggling by Edward Scissorhands.

Anyway, I would like to hear again from all those good liberals who believe that the real threat to civil liberties in this country is something Hillary Rodham Clinton said 20 years ago. I think that would be amusing right now.