A Karen Burmese teen enjoys a tractor drag as he clings to a moving trailer during a group Earth Day project in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Photographed April 22, 2012

photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller

In Brooklyn a teen is interrogatd by New York Police on Myrtle Ave.

Photographed March 9, 2012

photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller

In 2011, 684,330 New Yorkers were stopped by the police.
603,259 were totally innocent (88 percent).
353,624 were black (53 percent).
224,849 were Latino (34 percent).
62,033 were white (9 percent).

  —- http://www.nyclu.org/issues/racial-justice/stop-and-frisk-practices

Spring Fever in Harlem plus there was a full moon… teens scuffle after school on 125th St./Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Blvd. in Manhattan, as police disperse a fight that began between two high school girls.

Photographed March 7, 2012

photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller

Harlem teens stand at West 125th St. / Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Blvd. and Amsterdam Ave. in Manhattan.

Photographed March 7, 2012

photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller