Boston Police back off warrantless searches
“Police are like vampires,” a Black Panther leader tells the Globe.
Boston’s poor African Americans are rejecting the Boston Police Department’s offer to search their homes for guns, warrant-free.
Startled by the rebuke, the police are scaling back the unconstitutional scheme.
Universal Hub takes the Boston Globe to task for reporting the New Black Panther Party’s opposition to the BPD’s Safe Homes plan, without noting its militant platform. (Images: From the New Black Panther website.)
Boston Police surprised some black people dont like the idea of warrantless searches | Universal Hub
Boston Police surprised some black people dont like the idea of warrantless searches
By adamg - Tue, 03/25/2008 - 7:57am.So the department has postponed its Safe Homes program again.
Request for the Globe: You mention in the story you interviewed the local leader of the New Black Panther Party twice. Can we hope that this means youll be doing a story on the party for those of us who didnt even know it existed, especially given that part of the partys platform is to organize armed “Black Peoples Militias” and to stop blacks from “snitching” and cooperating with police? See Point 7 in the partys 10-point platform.
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