To compensate victims of their racist and abusive "stop and frisk" policy, the New York Police Department partnered with McDonald’s to offer free Happy Meals™ to anyone stopped and frisked three times without charge or summons. Too yummy to be true?
Selected press:
- Website spoofs 'Stop and Frisk' and McDonald's, ABC News
- Three Stop-and-Frisks = One Happy Meal, New York Magazine
- Get A McDonald's Happy Meal For Every Third Stop And Frisk! , Gothamist
- 365Black: Here's A Free Happy Meal Voucher, Good After 3 NYPD Cops Frisk And Let You Go, Business Insider
- McDonald’s Denies NYPD Deal to Give Happy Meals to Stop and Frisk Victims, Color Lines
- Three strikes, you're in!, Homeland Security Newswire (Note: This reprint of the press release was up for about 24 hours, until HSN realized it wasn't actual homeland security news)
