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NEW YORK, NY –City Comptroller John C. Liu issued the following statement on today’s Silent March to End Stop-and-Frisk:

“Today’s march is about ending Stop and Frisk. That’s exactly what we need to do. While reasonable people may disagree on whether the practice should be mended or ended I believe it should be abolished. The June 17th march is important not only in New York City but across the United States. Racial profiling is on the rise and is especially prevalent here, as we see from the number of young men of color who are the overwhelming targets of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy. This biased practice, which simply has no place in a democratic society, should be abolished.”