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Kips Bay Arrest of 18-Year-Old By NYPD is Heavily Criticized

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 7/31/20

The arrest of a teenage woman wanted on criminal-mischief charges by the NYPD’s plainclothes warrant squad during a daytime protest through Kips Bay July 28 has provoked angry responses from some elected officials, who called it needlessly aggressive. 

According to video and bystanders’ accounts of the incident, Nikki Stone, an 18-year-old transgender woman, was yanked off the street by several officers and hauled off into an unmarked minivan parked in the middle of the Second Ave. and East 25th St. intersection while uniformed NYPD cops on bicycles ran interference against protesters. 

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