The Legal Aid Society called on the Bronx District’s Office to dismiss low-level charges pending against Destin Burgess, a Legal Aid client who is frequently subjected to illegal stop-and-frisk searches by local New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers, reports NowThis News.

A video filmed by Mr. Burgess this past September depicts NYPD officers, entirely without provocation, illegally searching Mr. Burgess and his friend without any cause. According to Mr. Burgess, this kind of misconduct from the officers at issue is neither unique nor even unusual. He and his friends in the community must contend with it regularly. This video is unrelated to the current charges pending against Mr. Burgess, but those charges arise from an incident nearly identical to the one Mr. Burgess previously captured.

“Officers in the Bronx and other boroughs routinely profile and subject our clients and other New Yorkers of color to searches such as this one with impunity. We are calling on the Bronx District Attorney’s Office to dismiss the charges pending against our client—which arose from an incident nearly identical to what is captured in the video depicting the violation of his rights,” said Shannon Griffin, Staff Attorney with the Bronx Trial Office at The Legal Aid Society.