The idea of creating a national stop-and-frisk policy is the equivalent of advancing martial law and is beyond the constitutional power of the presidency<br /><br />As the nation reels from two recent fatal police shootings of black men, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday called for cities nationwide to adopt "stop-and-frisk"—a widely condemned police practice that New York City was forced to abandon after a federal judge struck it down as unconstitutional, finding that it disproportionately targeted minorities.<br /><br />"'I would do stop-and-frisk. I think you have to,' Trump said, according to excerpts of a Fox News 'town hall' in Cleveland, after a listener asked what he would do to reduce crime in predominantly black communities across the nation," reports Reuters.<br /><br />Trump's "support for the polarizing crime-fighting policy—which involves officers' questioning and searching pedestrians—collides with his highly visible courtship of African-Americans, who have been disproportionately singled out by the tactic, data show," the New York Times writes.<br /><br />"We did it in New York," Trump said of the practice. "It worked incredibly well and you have to be proactive."<br /><br />Full story: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/22/after-two-fatal-police-shootings-trump-calls-nationwide-stop-and-frisk<br /><br />SUBSCRIBE<br />http://www.youtube.com/MikeMalloyVideo<br /><br />PLEASE SUPPORT THE MIKE MALLOY YOUTUBE CHANNEL<br />http://tinyurl.com/MalloyChannelDonations
