Crime & Safety
Lawyer Battles City, Again, Over Stop-And-Frisk: Report
David Ourlicht twice battled the city after NYPD officers stop-and-frisked him. He settled his second lawsuit for $10,000, a report says.
CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A run-in with police in Crown Heights kicked off the second time a lawyer battled the city over its stop-and-frisk practice, according to a report.
David Ourlicht eventually settled his wrongful arrest lawsuit for $10,000 in February, the New York Daily News reported.
But the Daily News also reported that the whole March 2018 encounter left Ourlicht in disbelief — especially since he was a plaintiff in another stop-and-frisk lawsuit which found the practice to be unlawful.
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Stop-and-frisks across the city fell sharply after the case — a class action suit called Floyd v. City of New York — but it persists. Ourlicht went to law school as the case ended, became a public defender but again found himself under police suspicion for reasons he claimed had to do with him being black, the Daily News reported.
Police hauled Ourlicht and a friend into custody after they claimed to smell marijuana, the report states. Ourlicht spent six hours in a police station before he was released without being charged, according to the report.
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Ourlicht told the Daily News his case showed police still target people of color. A city spokesperson told the paper that Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration dramatically reduced the number of stops.
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