{"id":64224,"date":"2026-06-12T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64224"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:28:00","slug":"philadelphia-inquirer-two-philadelphia-police-officers-stopped-hundreds-of-black-men-on-the-street-lawyers-say-the-stops-were-illegal-and-racially-biased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64224","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Inquirer: Two Philadelphia police officers stopped hundreds of Black men on the street. Lawyers say the stops were illegal and racially biased."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Philadelphia Inquirer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia-police-officers-illegal-pedestrian-stops-20260612.html?id=dj5hWavp9D6dg&amp;utm_source=social&amp;utm_campaign=gift_link&amp;utm_medium=referral\">Two Philadelphia police officers stopped hundreds of Black men on the street. Lawyers say the stops were illegal and racially biased.<\/a> by Jillian Kramer (&#8220;Prosecutors have dismissed at least 24 firearms cases after defense lawyers challenged the legality of stops conducted by two Philadelphia police officers who they say systematically targeted Black men for unlawful searches. Lawyers with the Defender Association of Philadelphia say former partners August Gershwin and John Lee initiated hundreds of pedestrian investigations in Northwest Philadelphia without sufficient legal justification \u2014 ordering Black men to submit to searches during interactions that were supposed to be voluntary, delaying activation of body-worn cameras until after stops were underway, and rarely documenting investigations unless they yielded illegal guns or contraband.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Inquirer: Two Philadelphia police officers stopped hundreds of Black men on the street. Lawyers say the stops were illegal and racially biased. by Jillian Kramer (&#8220;Prosecutors have dismissed at least 24 firearms cases after defense lawyers challenged the legality &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64224\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,86,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-pretext","category-stop-and-frisk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64225,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224\/revisions\/64225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}