End Stop and Frisk cloth patch
* Content Warning: racial profiling and police brutality *
- Label
- End Stop and Frisk cloth patch
- Creator
- Unknown; Occupy Wall Street Archives Working Group
- Object Type
- Patches
- Description
- *Content Warning: This caption includes description of racial profiling and police brutality.* 2011 was the height of NYPD’s stop and frisk tactic as nearly 700,000 people were stopped and harassed by the cops. Multiple studies have shown that, as a result of this policy, people of color were stopped and interrogated at a significantly greater rate than white people in New York City. A disconnect in Occupy's rhetoric and actions was palpable to people of color on the frontlines at Occupy. On the one hand, Occupy decried police brutality, as this white cloth patch that reads "No justice, no peace. End stop and frisk!" suggests. On the other hand, as Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell writes in "A Critique of the Occupy Movement from a Black Occupier (The Black Scholar Vol. 41, No. 4, Winter 2011), "I was struck by how Occupiers attempted to forge an alliance with the police by chanting, 'We are the ninety-nine percent! So are you!' and 'You are one of us!'"
- Image Description
- The phrase "No Justice No Peace End Stop and Frisk! #OccupyWallStreet" is silkscreened onto a piece of white cloth. The image is in black and white. "End Stop and Frisk! is sandwiched between "No Justice" on the top and "No Peace" on the bottom. The hashtag appears below this graphic.
- Citation
- Stop Stop and Frisk fabric patch, circa 2011-2012; TAM.630 Occupy Wall Street Archives Working Group Records; box 40; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University
- Collection
- Occupy Working Group TAM.630
- Themes
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- Declarations
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