RPD intimidation and harassment at the Flying Squirrel (again)
Channel: Rochester Indymedia
Date: 2015-04-02

At approximately 8:47pm, Saturday, March 28, 2015, during a teen party event at the Flying Squirrel Community Space, nine RPD officers, using bad intel and apparent racial profiling, confronted 
organizers, squirrel members, and event security about the party.

The event is a space for teens, predominantly of color, to congregate safely and have fun.

The nine officers did not include the other officers in cars waiting at 
both ends of the block.

No one was doing anything wrong. The party was fine, the Squirrel was under occupancy, and the event security had things in hand.

The Flying Squirrel collective viewed the actions of the officers as 
harassment and intimidation. 

According to their event coordinator, who has been at events with predominantly white youth, police either do not show up, or one car pulls up, requests that the music to be turned down (when this happens, which is almost never), and drives away not to be seen again.