Stop-and-Frisk in Newark

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Stop-and-Frisk in Newark

Philip Montgomery learned there were few cinema-worthy stop-and-frisk moments in Newark. Instead, he found distrust and misunderstanding clouding these encounters.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/police-stop-and-frisk-in-newark/

Dinnertime, replied one man who somehow thought eating on the hood of a car in the dead of winter in Newark was a good idea. “It was a little sketchy,” said Philip Montgomery, a photographer who hopped out of the car with the officers, his huge strobe popping like a paparazzo’s.

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