File under: Show uz your paperz! - Student jailed for 2 nights when she can't show ID

[TalkingDog]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45135682/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/t/student-jailed-nights-when-she-cant-show-id/#.TtUCRXqwUcp


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.

[RKP5637]

1. Police State USA! n/t

[gratuitous]

2. I am reliably assured

That the police forces of the United States are not about to begin locking people up for no reason other than an inability to produce proper identification on demand. Concerns about police state tactics and fascist tendencies are overblown, so I'm told in most authoritative fashion (naughty words were used). And even if it's happening right before our eyes, it's most likely for our own good, and the only people who could possibly object are just a bunch of dirty fucking hippies.

[noiretextatique]

3. power-tripping asshole wastes resources and time

and jails a young woman for 2 days for non-crime. other officers knew it was bogus and did nothing to help her. thank goodness the judge threw out the case.