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Activists: Cops terrorize teens with stop-and-frisk tactics

Miller, Yawu
Bay State Banner
03-09-2006
Muse Mohamed was not at all surprised last Friday when the four bicycle
cops approached him as he exited his friend's apartment in the Bromley
Health housing development.

Mohamed, who says he's been stopped more than 30 times since he was 14,
just stood in the hallway outside his friend's door and waited for the
officers' inevitable approach.

"They asked what everybody was doing here," Mohamed recalled directly after
the encounter, clutching a cigarette in the 20-degree air. "Sh--. I was
just visiting my girl."

Mohamed, who is a student at Roxbury Community College and works in the
Boston Convention Center's commissary, says that every time he is stopped
by ...

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