Word: quartimon
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...looks like a typical high school classroom, but the question Ronald Quartimon poses to his African-American students at Bedford Stuyvesant Outreach, an alternative high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., isn't about the Civil War or Shakespeare's sonnets. He wants to know how many of them have ever been stopped by the police. Six hands shoot up. "Usually," says a student, "they just come out right off the bat and ask you, 'Do you have any drugs?'" The comment is a typical one for the 10-session course called Conflicts with Cops, run by the Harlem-based Neighborhood Defender...
...raised an outcry against brutal police tactics and racial profiling. But they have also sent a warning into the homes of ordinary families, who are increasingly taking steps to make sure their kids don't do the wrong thing when they come face to face with the police. Says Quartimon: "Today you can't take anything for granted...
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