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A Brooklyn woman says she was arrested outside a bar in Murray Hill last July simply for criticizing the NYPD's widely-criticized stop-and-frisk policies. Kaylan Pedine, who works for a non-profit that serves people with learning disabilities, was outside Mercury Bar on Third Avenue with two friends shortly before midnight on July 6th when two NYPD officers passed by, prompting Pedine to remark, "I wish they would stop stop-and-frisk." She was promptly arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for stating an opinion.

Pedine insists she did not even raise her voice at the officers, and her comment was directed to her friends, not the cops. (Nor did she give them the finger, as another man did to a group of cops before his stupid arrest.) But it seems Officer Craig Campion's feelings were so hurt that he handcuffed her, took her to the nearby precinct station house, and issued her the disorderly conduct summons, for allegedly blocking vehicular traffic.

The charges were dismissed, and now Pedine is suing the NYPD and the city. Her lawyer, Mark Taylor, argues that her First Amendment rights were violated. We asked Taylor to speculate on why Officer Campion went out of his way to arrest Pedine for stating an opinion; he says, "Officers are under a lot of pressure to make their collars. And if you've seen Ray Kelly get questioned about stop-and-frisk, you can see the department is getting pretty defensive about it." And in a statement announcing the lawsuit, Pedine says:

"I believe that the more awareness we can bring regarding Stop and Frisk policy, the more opportunities arise for authentic conversations about solutions and changing this policy- a policy that is horrendously unconstitutional to communities of color especially. You cannot turn your eyes away from the statistics and facts about Stop and Frisk. There is a reason people say 'ignorance is bliss.' However, I want to be a voice that firmly says, 'Enough is enough.'”

Next week, as it happens, a trial is scheduled to begin in Floyd v. City of New York, the Center for Constitutional Rights' class action suit challenging the legality of the City’s policy. Here's Pedine's lawsuit, which was filed today:

http://gothamist.com/2013/03/13/brooklyn_woman_criticizes_stop_and.php

(link contains pic of complaint and more info)

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A Brooklyn woman says she was arrested outside a bar in Murray Hill last July simply for criticizing the NYPD's widely-criticized stop-and-frisk policies. Kaylan Pedine, who works for a non-profit that serves people with learning disabilities, was outside Mercury Bar on Third Avenue with two friends shortly before midnight on July 6th when two NYPD officers passed by, prompting Pedine to remark, "I wish they would stop stop-and-frisk." She was promptly arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for stating an opinion.

Pedine insists she did not even raise her voice at the officers, and her comment was directed to her friends, not the cops. (Nor did she give them the finger, as another man did to a group of cops before his stupid arrest.) But it seems Officer Craig Campion's feelings were so hurt that he handcuffed her, took her to the nearby precinct station house, and issued her the disorderly conduct summons, for allegedly blocking vehicular traffic.

The charges were dismissed, and now Pedine is suing the NYPD and the city. Her lawyer, Mark Taylor, argues that her First Amendment rights were violated. We asked Taylor to speculate on why Officer Campion went out of his way to arrest Pedine for stating an opinion; he says, "Officers are under a lot of pressure to make their collars. And if you've seen Ray Kelly get questioned about stop-and-frisk, you can see the department is getting pretty defensive about it." And in a statement announcing the lawsuit, Pedine says:

"I believe that the more awareness we can bring regarding Stop and Frisk policy, the more opportunities arise for authentic conversations about solutions and changing this policy- a policy that is horrendously unconstitutional to communities of color especially. You cannot turn your eyes away from the statistics and facts about Stop and Frisk. There is a reason people say 'ignorance is bliss.' However, I want to be a voice that firmly says, 'Enough is enough.'”

Next week, as it happens, a trial is scheduled to begin in Floyd v. City of New York, the Center for Constitutional Rights' class action suit challenging the legality of the City’s policy. Here's Pedine's lawsuit, which was filed today:

http://gothamist.com/2013/03/13/brooklyn_woman_criticizes_stop_and.php

(link contains pic of complaint and more info)

People need to learn to grow a pair.

Charges were dismissed. End of story one would think.

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People need to learn to grow a pair.

Charges were dismissed. End of story one would think.

why do you think people should be okay with the possibility of being arrested for speaking an opinion to a friend?

Filed: K-1 Visa Country: United Kingdom
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She was being provocative . If a black person walks by me and I comment to a friend that I hate N$$$ers , I would not be surprised if I got punched.

I would be highly surprised I'd her lawyer is working pro bono. This case will go nowhere and she will be left with hefty legal bills. She needs to grow up.

Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Ecuador
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In NY you quickly learn to be careful what you say outside the house

And I thought that the only "de-Constitutionalized zone" was within a 100-mile radius of the U.S.-Mexico border.

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

 

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