These kids deserve a break.

Recently, two Pop Warner football players Faheem Loyal and Tony Ivey Jr. along with their coach Kelvin Lamar James filed a lawsuit against Newark Police that accused several officers of holding them at gunpoint last summer.

The suit, which was filed with the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, also alleged the police force mishandled the complaint the plaintiffs filed with Internal Affairs.

Now, wait, let's answer this question before we continue here. How many times does the black community have to go through this?

The steady cases involving police brutality and racial profiling toward young, black males during so-called concerned stops is rampant in New Jersey and throughout New York's five boroughs.

And, rightfully, community members and leaders have become frustrated in being victims of these "mistakes."

That's why the bastard perpetrators involved in this incident should be released.

According to a report filed by Sharon Ardarlo of the Newark Star Ledger, the incident unfolded when James, an assistant football coach for their Pop-Warner team, the North Ward Scorpions, took Ivey and his friend Loyal to a Burger King in Irvington in James' Dodge Magnum.

The Star Ledger report stated when they drove down South 18th Street and approached the Clinton Avenue intersection at approximately 9:30 p.m., James stopped the car at a red light where there were two vehicles in front of his car.

After the light changed green and the vehicles did not budge, James signaled that he was going to move and started to drive around the two cars.

One of the vehicles swerved in front of James' car and blocked his way. Six police officers in street clothes came out of the two vehicles and surrounded James' car with guns drawn.
What?

Cops are required to take sensitivity courses - right? Which means information from these classes would help an officer's critical thinking skills in identifying a possible target, when, let's say, a car is being pulled over with a grown man and two teens, 13 and 15 are in the car?

Did this incident deserve six police? No.

Did this incident deserve the officers to pull their guns? Hell no.

"I thought they were going to shoot us," Ivey said.

During their press conference, Ivey and Loyal said the officers cursed at them and roughly frisked them during the stop. James explained to the officers that he was a football coach, and noted he had not given them permission to do a search of his car. An officer responded by saying he and the teens had no rights, according to the suit.
Enough is enough with officers labeling black men as prime targets.

If the police department wants to bridge the divide between them and the black community, respect must be given first and foremost. And, In this incident the department's vow to protect and serve fell flat.

Reason why these cops should lose their badges and these kids should get a hefty check - payback's a beast.