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NYPD arrests young college student for being in park after dark without ID

Another example of the disgusting practices of the NYPD that occur everyday in communities of color. This time a light gets shined on the situation because it happened to this young college student.  No one should be subject to this type of treatment. - ATH

NY Times - 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.

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