During this week’s trial on NYPD’s stop and frisk, an officer admitted detaining a 13 year old boy and berating the boy when he began to cry. Even though the boy was innocent and had not committed a crime, he was still handcuffed and taken down to the police station:

Appearing on the stand Wednesday, police officer Brian Dennis testified that he had taunted a 13-year-old boy after he detained him. Dennis told the handcuffed child, Devin Almonor, to “stop crying like a little girl.” The teen was reportedly stopped on the street in Harlem when he reached into his pants’ waste-band. The two officers that stopped him claimed to have been searching for a firearm, but Almonor was found to be carrying no weapons. He was nonetheless handcuffed, taunted and taken to the stationhouse.

Officer Dennis said he no longer thought the taunting of the boy was appropriate, but officer Jonathan Korabel maintained that the harassment of the 13 year old boy was still a lawful stop and frisk.

In December, NYPD was sued for cuffing a 7 year old for stealing $5 from a classmate. The current NYPD suit, Floyd v. New York, has revealed how NYPD officers are under a quota to stop and harass black males between the ages of 14 to 21. The majority of the people who are caught in the net of stop and frisk are black and Latino males.