Stop and frisk in Philly

They do this because they can get away with it. So who’s letting them get away with it? All of us:

NO ONE GOT PUNCHED in the face – this time – but YouTube has given the Philadelphia Police Department another black eye, proving once again that smartphones are a bully cop’s worst nightmare.

Let’s just hope that Officer Philip Nace doesn’t land in the city’s tourism department when the dust settles.

“Don’t come to f—ing Philadelphia. Stay in Jersey.”

That’s one of Nace’s rage-induced zingers that were recorded in a disturbing 16-minute YouTube video of a recent stop and frisk.

The video, dated Sept. 27, shows Nace, 46, and another police officer from North Philly’s 25th District stopping two unidentified men, apparently after they said hello to a third man on the street.

“You don’t say ‘Hi’ to strangers,” Nace said as he confronts the two pedestrians. “Not in this neighborhood,” his partner added.

The cops then push one of the men against their cruiser. The second man, who is videotaping the incident and starts to walk away, is ordered to put his phone in his pocket and get against the car for a frisk. The phone, however, continues recording, apparently on the hood of the car.

“Don’t f—ing fight . . . we’ll kick your ass, too,” Nace said. He threatened the other man, saying he would “split your wig open.”

Nace called one of the men a “f—ing dirty ass.” When they protest that they haven’t done anything wrong, he shouted: “Why don’t you shut the f— up! Everyone thinks they’re a f—ing lawyer, and they don’t know jack s—.”

“You’re jaywalking, by the way,” the second officer later added, apparently in an attempt to justify the stop.

At one point, Nace told one of the men: “We don’t want you here, anyway. All you do is weaken the f—ing country.”

“How do I weaken the country? By working?” the man asked.

“No, freeloading,” Nace said.

When the man said he’s a server at a country club, Nace responded, “Server. Serving weed?”

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20131011_Video_shows_aggressive_stop_and_frisk_in_Philly_that_ACLU_calls__abusive_.html#pACSAYorJimPeaFo.99