The Scars of Stop and Frisk

The Scars of Stop-and-Frisk: This short documentary film on New York’s stop-and-frisk policing focuses on Tyquan Brehon, a young man in Brooklyn who says he was stopped more than 60 times before age 18. Suggested Reading TikTok’s Brenay Montague Breaks Down the $1.7M Cheating Scandal, And…Whew! Inside the Explosive Delineation Debate Picking Apart Black Folk’s…

The Scars of Stop-and-Frisk: This short documentary film on New York’s stop-and-frisk policing focuses on Tyquan Brehon, a young man in Brooklyn who says he was stopped more than 60 times before age 18.

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