College Student Arrested and Held for 36 Hours for Being in Riverside Park Without ID (Judge then dismissed the case)

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​You could say the NYPD is having a PR problem. In the wake of tales of ticket fixing, planting drugs on innocent people, gun-smuggling, "rape cops," accusations of police brutality, and pepper spraying incidents, there's a pretty damning story in the New York Times today about 21-year-old Samantha Zucker, a Carnegie Mellon senior in town with a group of students looking for jobs.

Zucker happened to be in Riverside Park a couple hours after it closed at 1 a.m. on October 22 (she wanted to see the Hudson). There, she and a classmate, Alex Fischer, were stopped by the police and given tickets for trespassing.

Fischer showed ID and was allowed to leave; Zucker had left her wallet at her hotel, and, when she couldn't show a driver's license, was handcuffed, arrested, and held for 36 hours.

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