Student jailed for 2 nights when she can't show ID

[Cactusboy]

Woah....could you imagine if this happened to your daughter?

 

 

 

 

Student jailed for 2 nights when she can't show ID

 

Companion was let go but visitor to NYC is handcuffed — she left wallet at hotel

 

 

 

By JIM DWYER

updated 11/2/2011 1:25:46 PM ET

 

NEW YORK — 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.

For instance:

“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.

 

 

Click link for rest of the story. It gets even more outrageous.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45135682/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/t/student-jailed-nights-when-she-cant-show-id/#.TrGzNnL4LxM

[Cactusboy]

Ahhh...didn't see the sub-forums in here. If this thread should have been made there please move it mods. My bad.

[kansas husker]

What a bunch of bull crap. You want to know why people disturst law enforcement it is crap like this. Yes I understand she should not have been there, and she should have had her id, but putting her in jail for two days is way out of the question. Even being taken to jail was uneccessary why could an officer not have escorted her to her hotel room to produce the id.

[Cactusboy]

Yes...and too many bad cops lately are giving the good cops a bad name. This is just black/white, no brainer stuff...the not allowing her friend to get her ID.

 

This part really stands out. Who exactly is he protecting and serving here?

 

 

“We’re there five minutes when a police car came up and told us we had to leave because the park was closed,” Mr. Fischer said. “We said, ‘O.K., we didn’t know,’ and turned around to leave. Almost immediately, a second police car pulls up.”

 

Its driver said they would get tickets for trespassing and demanded their IDs. Ms. Zucker suggested that someone could bring her papers from the hotel. “He said it was too late for that, I should have thought of it earlier,” she said.