Terrence Battle says that he was yanked out of a cab in Brooklyn in 2010 and frisked by police for no reason. "Pulling over next to my house, police turned their lights on and stopped the cab," he said. "They walked up and asked the cab driver if everything was OK. The cab driver said yeah. They immediately turned their attention to me, frisked me, searched me, went through my bag." Battle sued the city with the help of the New York Civil Liberties Union. Now, the case has been settled, with Battle receiving $10,000. [MORE] 

(Reuters) - New York police officers at their daily roll call are now being told they may not systemically search taxi passengers for weapons, in a deal to settle a lawsuit over the city's controversial stop and frisk program.

The lawsuit said the NYPD had extended its hotly contested stop-and-frisk practices to include regular passenger searches during inspections of taxis and livery cabs that participate in the Taxi/Livery Robbery Inspection Program, run by police.