Dismal Tail of Arrest for Tiniest of Crimes...New York Times

[Stuart G]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/nyregion/dismal-tale-of-arrest-for-tiniest-of-crimes.html?_r=1&src=mv&ref=nyregion
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By JIM DWYER

Published: November 1, 2011


The arresting officer came by the cell, Samantha Zucker said, to make snide remarks about finding her with a friend in Riverside Park after its 1 a.m. closing.
“He was telling me that I needed to get a new boyfriend, that I should get a guy who takes me out to dinner,” Ms. Zucker said. “He mocked me for being from Westchester.”

Early in the morning on Oct. 22, a Saturday, Ms. Zucker, 21, and her friend Alex Fischer, also 21, were stopped by the police in Riverside Park and given tickets for trespassing. Mr. Fischer was permitted to leave after he produced his driver’s license. But Ms. Zucker, on a visit to New York City with a group of Carnegie Mellon University seniors looking for jobs in design industries, had left her wallet in a hotel two blocks away.

She was handcuffed. For the next 36 hours, she was moved from a cell in the 26th Precinct station house on West 126th Street to central booking in Lower Manhattan and then — because one of the officers was ending his shift before Ms. Zucker could be photographed for her court appearance, and you didn’t think he was going to take the subway uptown while his partner stayed with her at booking, did you? — she was brought back to Harlem.

There she waited in a cell until a pair of fresh police officers were rustled up to bring her back downtown for booking, where she spent a second night in custody. The judge proceeded to dismiss the ticket in less than a minute.


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I saw this today for the first time. It is unbeliveable. But I guess in today's New York City, it is ok.

[libinnyandia]

1. With a mayor

like bloomberg or his predecessor giuliani, I's not surprising.How people could elect those 2 5 times is beyond me. I voted againstthem 5 times. I remember one instance when an innocent young man was shot by an undercover cop. Giuliani illegally released police records and said the young man was no altar boy. In fact he had been an altar boy. I personally saw a situation where a guy ran a stop sign, stopped suddenly and was hit by another car. Another witness, whose husband was a cop, said the gucops y was clearly on something. The cops weren't concerned about his behavior or the fact that his vehi cle was registered out of state. I'm not ssure if they were brave but they were't bright. They think they are above everybody.

[Me.]

2. Add To That Duo Mr. Paramilitary, Ray Kelly