America's newest crime: Walking while human (and possibly black)

Nothing to see here...just keep moving. Assuming you don't get tased:

The Tallahassee Police Department moved swiftly Wednesday to get out in front of its latest controversy — the tasing of a 61-year-old woman in the back as she walked away from an officer in the middle of a city street in broad daylight.

The incident, which was recorded by an onlooker with his cell phone, prompted TPD Chief Michael DeLeo to hold a middle-of-the-night news conference to announce that the officer involved, Terry Mahan, was being placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal-affairs investigation.

TPD also released the cell-phone video, posting it to the department's YouTube channel. The nearly seven-minute video shows Mahan tasing Viola Young, who went motionless before falling face-first onto the pavement.

The incident, which happened about 5:20 p.m. on Dunn Street in Frenchtown, sparked vocal outrage among those who witnessed it. One woman can be heard on the video repeatedly screaming, "Oh my God!"

Meanwhile, on the sidewalks -- literally -- of New York:

A police cruiser attempted to shoo a group of black teenagers out of Park Slope on a Saturday afternoon by shouting "get out of the neighborhood" at them over the car's loudspeaker, according to a witness. Their "crime"? Being a group of black teenagers in Park Slope.

A Brooklyn resident named Sara Bennett raised the incident at a 78th Precinct Community Council meeting last night, DNAinfo reports. Bennett says she witnessed the cops follow a group of five or six kids who appeared to be around 16 years old and were simply walking through the neighborhood around 2:45 p.m. The squad car turned its lights on and told the teens to leave the area.

Commanding Officer Captain Frank DiGiacomo said he hadn't heard of the incident, but brought up growing crime around the Atlantic Terminal area as a potential explanation. Of course, that's about a mile and a half away from Ninth Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, where the incident happened, but who's keeping track?