NYC cops arrest human rights lawyer waiting outside restaurant while her kids used restroom

[geardaddy]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/04/nyc-cops-arrest-human-rights-lawyer-waiting-outside-restaurant-while-her-kids-used-restroom/

A human rights lawyer was arrested outside a Ruby Tuesday’s in New York City as she waited for her children, who were inside using the restroom, The New York Daily News reports.

On Tuesday, Chaumtoli Huq filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Federal Court alleging that the New York Police Department officers who arrested her used “unreasonable and wholly unprovoked force” as she was waiting for family after a pro-Palestinian rally in July.

Huq had, the previous day, taken a leave of absence from her role as a top attorney with New York City’s Public Advocate’s office so she could focus on the abuse of garment workers in her home country of Bangladesh.


According to the lawsuit, police approached Huq outside of the Ruby Tuesday’s and instructed her to “move along.” She explained to the officers that her husband was escorting their children to the bathroom inside, and that she was waiting for them to return. At that point, “without any legal basis, [one officer] grabbed Ms. Huq, turned her and pushed her against the wall and placed her under arrest.”

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[RKP5637]

1. How many more incidents are needed to get the F'en cops under control in the US. Really,

congress, the Justice Dept., whomever, needs to step in. This, is getting woefully out of control.

[atreides1]

7. Just one

But it'll have to involve the close relative of a Republican asshat...either a member of Congress or the Vatican 5 who sit on SCOTUS!

And yes it'll have to be fatal...

[Man from Pickens]

21. Nope, not even that

NY Supreme Court judge a victim of NYPD brutality, no justice:

http://www.jdjournal.com/2013/08/20/can-even-a-supreme-court-judge-get-justice-against-nypd-police-brutality/

[Laelth]

42. Thanks for that link. n/t

-Laelth

[Tace]

2. A top attorney with New York City’s Public Advocate’s office

Excellent!

[lpbk2713]

3. Great career move guys.

Yeah, that's gonna work out real well for them.

[JackRiddler]

59. On the contrary.

Unless this turns into something unprecedented, it will make no difference whatsoever, and insofar as they are "persecuted" by this liberal overseer, other cops will show solidarity. In a couple of years they may end up on an inside track to promotion.

As you should know, they could have shot her 42 times on video and still have a 50-50 shot of a complete acquittal - and I say 50-50 only because she's a human rights lawyer with the city government they ostensibly work for.

Police have near-total impunity to harrass and assault people on the street.

[Warpy]

4. Putting untrained morons on the force has turned into a bad idea

Now who could have seen that coming?

I hope she wins her lawsuit. I hope it stings enough to get those brutal bigots off the force. I hope it stings enough to get police some real human to human training instead of just gun range practice.

Funny, the more ignorant and brutal the cops get, the safer the stereotypical suburban/wealthy urban conservative feels. It's just one more symptom of an entire country gone haywire since 1980.

[ReRe]

16. Amen!

[christx30]

32. I'd like to see the cops

themselves be held personally financially liar for stupid crap they pull like this. Maybe after a few of them end up fired and living under a bridge, the rest will be too worried about their lives being ruined hassling innocent people like this. They'll actually go after actual criminals.

[RedCappedBandit]

43. Agreed.

I always wonder what good it is suing the police, when we're the ones funding their operations. They should be held personally liable.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Why the fuck would you go to Ruby Tuesday's in New York City?

Just kidding... #olivegarden

[Nye Bevan]

6. You mean.... NYC has better restaurants than Ruby Tuesday?

Is that even possible?

[Ikonoklast]

36. Only one, actually.

The Olive Garden on Times Square.

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. To use the toilet! n/t

[geardaddy]

9. I can see no other reason to go to a Ruby Tuesdays anywhere

that to use the toilet

[MineralMan]

10. Well, if they have two kids young enough to need

escorting to the restroom, I hope they do eat there. I'll be eating somewhere else, so it won't matter.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. Lol!

Point!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. lol. i think for the bathrooms.

[rhett o rick]

44. One can't be too picky when the kids have to go to the bathroom. nm

[Gormy Cuss]

46. For the clean bathrooms.

[pipoman]

11. This or one of the many other examples of cops gone wild

Should be the poster of police reform, rather than a case which will arguably be determined to be justified.

[chervilant]

13. Let me guess...

Her skin was the wrong shade of brown?

(I looked at your link, and discovered I am spot on!)

[murielm99]

25. Yep, she's brown.

I looked at the link for the same reason.

If she had been any darker, they might have arrested her kids, too. Maybe brown kids should not use the potty that the rest of us use!

[Nuclear Unicorn]

14. Your family and your rights do not matter --

[navarth]

31. great movie

I think it is still way over the humans' heads. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

My favorite line from 'They Live': "I have come to chew bubble gum and kick ass; and I'm all out of bubble gum." Not sure if the line originated in that movie, but damn that was cute.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. kick

[geardaddy]

19. Thanks!

[KurtNYC]

17. To the arresting officer I say... Don't question why she needs

to be so free!
She'll tell you it's the only way to be...

[MaeScott]

18. Kicked and rec'ed nt

[Ikonoklast]

20. Lemme guess before I even read the article....not White?

Yep.

Sadly....yep.

[geardaddy]

22. Yep.

[sarge43]

24. Well, clearly her fault for being the wrong color and gender.

[ReRe]

26. K&R for EXPOSURE!

OK... if there has NOT been a book written to document police brutality in this country, who is going to do it? Would be a great job for a group of paralegals and/or lawyers. Has DeBlassio done anything about the police brutality in NYC since he took office? I hope that Justice Dept probe of the Ferguson, MO Police Dept is just the start of a top-down review of all police depts in this country. This is what happens when our government is too preoccupied with pleasing The Corporation, instead of doing We The People's business. It's what happens when a blind eye is turned to ANY corruption in ANY part of our government.
This is a lawless fucking nation. Land of laws, my ass!

[geardaddy]

27. Thanks ReRe!

[ReRe]

30. I did that in one fell swoop...

... because it's the truth. Corruption unstopped is cumulative. And here we are, living in a corrupt rogue police state! This country has been doing this shit since JFK was assassinated.

[Comrade Grumpy]

33. Check out "Rise of the Warrior Cop" by Radley Balko. Most excellent.

[ReRe]

34. Thanks. I will do just that! n/t

[The Wizard]

28. There is a nation wide police problem

It was on the news every day when Occupy protesters were routinely brutalized with neither cause nor accountability

[Enthusiast]

29. They got the word from the CIA. Palestinian sympathizers.

Round 'em up, beat knots on their head. American fairness!

[edhopper]

35. Maybe the cops could get a bigger raise

if they stopped costing the city millions in lawsuits.

[Ash_F]

37. told her that “in America, wives take the names of their husbands.”

BAHAHAHA NICE JOB New YorK!

[Gormy Cuss]

48. NYC cop, the 1950s area calling you home. n/t

[Javaman]

38. Bad cops bad cops. what you gonna do when then come for you. bad cops bad cops. nt

[jtuck004]

39. Shoulda brought a white person along, mighta fared better. n/t

[Taitertots]

40. I'm sure the so-called "good cops" are going to rush to her defense

ACAB - all NYPD officers are criminals.

[Rex]

41. COPS YAY THE BESTEST PEOPLES EVERS!

[Uncle Joe]

45. Well at least they didn't strangle her to death, so they have that going for them.

Thanks for the thread, geardaddy.

[geardaddy]

54. Yeah, that's the least we could ask for.

[herding cats]

47. Those cops just bit off a much bigger mouthful than they can swallow.

They used "unreasonable and wholly unprovoked force" on someone who knows how to hit them where it hurts.

[whistler162]

49. Okay I don't like Ruby Tuesday's

but that is a little extreme to prevent child endangerment by forcing the kids to eat there.

[ret5hd]

52. What about letting kids piss there?

just askin'.

[L0oniX]

50. Clearly a -waiting for kids to pee while being black- problem.

[northoftheborder]

51. I would like to see the percentage of cops coming into the police force with....

....military backgrounds. More now than in the past? These tactics being used everywhere are out of control.

[progressoid]

53. "charges against her will be dropped if she is not re-arrested in the near future."

WHAT THE FUCK?

[JEB]

55. Fascism.

[heaven05]

56. what in the HELL is going on with

these protect and serve idiot storm troopers? Hmmmm, she is brown skinned. Now let me see the storm troopers who arrested her. Betcha?

[heaven05]

57. welcome to the club

[PatSeg]

58. A "Human rights" lawyer???

Oh way to go NYC cops! It is bad enough that you harass someone without probable cause and that that person is both a woman and a person of color, but bet you weren't expecting the bonus prize of her being a lawyer, a HUMAN RIGHTS lawyer.

How's that profiling thing working for you guys? Not only abusive, but evidently dumb as rocks.

[cpwm17]

60. And after spending the day abusing the public

I bet those cops went home thinking what a great job they did that day.