Essentially, I incorporated into my daily life the sense that I might find myself up against a wall or on the ground with an officer’s gun at my head. For a black man in his 20s like me, it’s just a fact of life in New York.

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That’s exactly what Ray Kelly wants.

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young black man, I would just not get hassled...cops. It’s that simple.

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