Dad of slain Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton who sang at Obama's inauguration blasts stop-frisk ruling: 'If crime rates are down in NY, don’t stop what you’re doing. Don’t test the water'

Last summer I wrote a piece saying the only thing keeping the city of New York from beingChicago was the police tactic known as “stop and frisk. 

Little did I know that no more than a year later, an activist judge,  kneeling at the feet of the civil rights industrial complex would strike down stop and frisk  as unconstitutional based on the flimsiest legal grounds since Roe vs Wade. 

Once again a sad fact is brought to light—Liberals don’t care about a police strategy that has worked to make New York the safest big city in the country.  They only care about making political points to suit their political agenda and if more African Americans and Latinos are shot dead as a result, too bad.  Those loses of life are not more important than Liberal ideology.  Chicago is case in point where there’s a Newton-style massacre of blacks on a weekly basis with precious little national coverage. 

Black life if cheap in Chicago and the white Democrat power structure that has run that city for decades,  like Detroit, doesn’t seem to care.     

New York Post reports residents of the murder-plagued Windy City, where the streets are flooded with guns and children regularly get caught in the crossfire, told The Post yesterday that a judge’s decision to overhaul stop-and-frisk will send New York down the same dark path. 

“If crime rates are down in New York, don’t stop what you’re doing. Don’t test the water,” said Nathaniel Pendleton, whose 15-year-old daughter, Hadiya, was shot to death a week after singing at President Obama’s inauguration in January.

Pendleton said Manhattan federal Judge Shira Scheindlin — who on Monday declared the NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk unconstitutional and ordered an overhaul and a court-appointed monitor — may soon have blood on her hands.

“Can you sleep at night if someone gets shot because a cop couldn’t search someone they know has a gun?” he asked.

Pendleton, whose daughter’s funeral drew dignitaries including First Lady Michelle Obama, said he wished that Chicago cops used stop-and-frisk as aggressively as New York because “if they did it, they would find a lot more guns.”

His grim comments came as New York City lawyers huddled to plot their appeal of the decision, which calls for additional training and supervision of cops — and requires cops to wear body cameras in precincts with the most stops.

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