this AM in BedStuy my Elementary-school Art & Music Teacher friend was accosted by Undercover Police

[indifferenthues]

and the thing that makes this more of "man bites dog" item than a "ho-hum - welcome to NYC - so what else is new" story is . . .

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[donnalee_kiss]

Meanwhile there can't possibly be innocent people out who fit such a description? He should have told them to take him in, then file for wrongful imprisonment.

[indifferenthues]

he is a school teacher and he would have risked being terminated if he was arrested

the reason that it was clearly a lie that they had received a call that a person of his description had been seen with a gun is that Bed Stuy Brooklyn is an predominantly Black/Afro-Caribbean area of New York City:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford-Stuyvesant,_Brooklyn

additionally my friend is what might be described as a natty dresser always with a few personal touches, that morning he was in an ice-cream suit, a pork pie hat and mirrored blue shades, add that to his pale complexion and his longish blond hair and it is unlikely in the extreme that there were really two people running around Bed Stuy looking like that