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The nydailynnews.com reports Terrence Battle, creative services manager at the stations, said the incident on Saturday left him feeling humiliated and furious.
"It was outrageous," Battle said. "But the sad part about it is it's an everyday occurrence. I can't say this is true for all police officers, but dealing with these officers, I was obviously considered a suspect."
After a late night out at a Manhattan comedy club, the 37-year-old Battle took the subway to Brooklyn and then hailed a livery cab. When the driver stopped to drop Battle at his home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, three plainclothes cops from the 81st Precinct got out of their unmarked car, he said.
"I'm thinking, 'This may be about something the driver did - a broken taillight or something like that,'" Battle said. "They ask him if everything is okay and he goes, 'Yeah.' Then they turn their attention to me and ask me to get out of the car.
"They said it was a routine stop, nothing personal."
Battle said he told the two officers and a sergeant that he lived there and had done nothing wrong.
"I'm sitting there, I'm a 6-4-1/2 black man, and I'm thinking it could get bad real quick," he said. "I'm being very, very careful. I had a recorder in my bag. I thought about trying to get it out, but I was scared to move."
Eventually, Battle got out of the car and let police frisk him, search his bag and jot down his personal information.
The NYPD said the officers stopped the livery because it had a decal that allows police to stop the car at any time to ensure the driver's safety.
Cops said the partition was open, suggesting a robbery, and that Battle matched the description of a man - black, 6 feet tall and 250 pounds - wanted in eight robberies in Bed-Stuy and East New York.
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