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The NYPD’s stop and frisk policy is under attack — and so is talking about it, a new lawsuit claims.
A NYC social worker was cuffed and tossed in jail for criticizing the under-siege crime-fighting program within earshot of a hypersensitive cop, the woman claims in the lawsuit.
Kaylan Pedine, 29, was chatting about the policy with friends in front of the Mercury Bar in Midtown when two officers pulled up. “I wish they would stop stop-and-frisk,” she said as they passed, the suit states.
Police Officer Craig Campion ordered the bewildered Pedine to turn around, and handcuffed her before gawking onlookers, according to the suit filed in Manhattan Federal court today.
After less than an hour in a cell, she was released and issued a summons for blocking vehicular traffic — but the Greenpoint resident claims she never stepped off the sidewalk.
A trial is set to start next week in Manhattan federal court, for a suit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, that alleges that cops routinely violate the constitutional rights of minorities by illegally targeting them for questioning on the basis of their race.
The city contends that “stop and frisk” battles vice in crime-ridden neighborhoods.
Maybe. The public should be able to see these cops' faces. The ones who actually commit these crimes. I bet ppl won't be surprised when they see who exactly they are.
Was she as polite as Ellen Barkin? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjgbNWKj1SY
I hear she got really upset, when the officer asked her boyfriend to "take your mother home".
Oh my, I wish some cops made it that easy for me to win a lawsuit.
This woman is going to get PLENTY. The shame is that it comes from taxpayers instead of the cops' salaries and pensions.
This seems strange to me, that a cop would do this in front of witnesses.
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