据美国中文网报道，纽约曼哈顿84岁华裔老翁黄敬存(Kang Chun Wong)今年1月过马路时，受警方拦截时是因不懂英语而不够配合，被警察打得昏迷；这名老人已控告警察，索赔500万美元。

Wong’s lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein, said the incident shows what’s wrong with the NYPD’s quality of life enforcement known as “broken windows” by turning a minor incident into a major crime.

“The broken windows policy in this era is a broken policy,” Rubenstein said. “When an elderly man ends up with multiple staples to close a wound in his head because of the issue of alleged jaywalking, it’s simply not right.”