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Testimony by Tanesha Grant, Executive Director of Parents Supporting and Parents New York, on Stop and Frisk and Police Practices

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Tanesha Grant, Executive Director of Parents Supporting and Parents New York, testified about the negative impacts of stop and frisk practices on her community. She shared personal experiences of being unlawfully frisked and called for a redirection of funding from police to community resources.

Emphasized that stop and frisk continues to be used to unlawfully search and detain community members
Recommended stopping police funding and instead investing in resources for communities to thrive
Criticized the gang database as a direct attack on black and brown youth

Tanesha Grant

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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Good afternoon, chair Salam and public safety city council committee members.

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Thank you for this hearing.

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My name is Tanisha Grant, and I am the executive director of Parents Support and Parents New York and Moms United For Black Lives New York City.

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I am also a member of the Davis roundtable on NYCHA policing and have been for more than 2 years.

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I was one of the people chair that helped, hire Tremaine Johnson, and he's doing, Tremaine's and he's doing an amazing job.

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I live and serve the community of Washington Heights and Harlem.

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Our reality is that stop and fricks wears heavy on our community for generations.

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This unlawful practice has been used continuously and continues to be used to unlawfully search and lock up our loved ones.

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In recent years the practice of stopping this has returned we the people fund the violent actions through our taxes.

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We know all I'm sorry.

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I lost my pace.

Vickie Paladino

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You know what I'm

Diana I. Ayala

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talking?

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I don't have

Vickie Paladino

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to go to my place.

Tanesha Grant

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In recent years, the practice of Canada, we know all the ways stop and frisk violates community members' lawful rights.

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Our recommendations are as follows.

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Stop funding the police and give our communities the resources the resources we need to thrive.

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Too much money is focused on criminalization of black and brown communities.

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Instead of and and instead of innovative and fully funded programs and opportunities, we, again and again, are attacked and told that our personal lived experience with police does not matter.

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I myself have been unlawfully frisked in the street trying to visit a friend.

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She lived in a building the police deemed a drug spot.

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They pulled me out of my car, pulled out my bra, made me take my shoes off in the middle of the street all because they were surveilling the building.

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When I protested and asked for their badge number, they took me to jail.

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The gang database is a direct attack on our black and brown sons and daughters.

UNKNOWN

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Times expired.

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Thank you.

Tanesha Grant

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It must be thank thank you.

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I'll put my rest in.

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