Video showing NYPD officers handcuffing churro vendor in subway goes viral
After the woman was escorted out, there was an outraged outcry from other commuters for the apparent mistreatment the woman had endured, Newman toldThe vendor had already been issued several summons over the last few months for illegally selling food on the subway, detective Sophia Mason of the NYPD said in a statement about the incident, which was originally published inMason said that the woman selling the churros"was instructed in English and Spanish that she would be issued a summons...
"She refused to cooperate and was briefly handcuffed; officers escorted her into the command where she was uncuffed," Mason continued."Her property was vouchered as arrest evidence and she was released within minutes. This individual has been issued ten summonses in the last five months for unlicensed vending at the same station.
The incident has ignited responses on social media, including from local politicians as well as actress Cynthia Nixon: The subway ovepolicing weâve been watching in recent days shows how cruel & corrosive criminalizing poverty is.
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