After 18-year-old Nikki Stone was grabbed off the street and arrested by NYPD Warrant Squad officers July 28 for having used orange paint to disable a police camera near City Hall several weeks earlier, Mayor de Basio the following morning focused on the abrupt way in which it was done rather than whether the cops did what they are paid to do.
He started out by telling reporters in his daily briefing, "Members of the Warrant Squad going and arresting [people with outstanding warrants] is actually their job." But he said that the manner in which it was handled—pulling Ms. Stone from a group of friends on a Manhattan street and placing her in an unmarked van—was too reminiscent of what Federal agents in Portland had been doing to protesters in recent weeks.
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