Man arrested for filming NYPD stop-and-frisk gets $125k settlement

Man arrested for filming NYPD stop-and-frisk gets $125k settlementReuters / Eduardo Munoz The New York Police Department reached a $125,000 settlement with a man who says he was arrested and strip-searched for photographing officers performing a stop-and-frisk operation in 2012. Dick George was sitting in his car in Flatbush on June 14, 2012, when he spotted three African-American youths getting searched by police employing the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy.

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