Woman Files Suit Alleging She Was Arrested for Criticizing 'Stop and Frisk'

One night last July, Kaylan Pedine was standing outside the Mercury Lounge in Manhattan talking to a friend. According to her attorney, Mark Taylor, here’s what happened next: Two New York Police Department officers walked by, and after they passed, Pedine said to her friend, “I wish they would stop stop-and-frisk.” Taylor says the officers overheard what she said about the controversial NYPD tactic, "and in response handcuffed and arrested Ms. Pedine."

According to Taylor, his client was then brought to a local precinct, searched, held for about an hour before being released, and charged with disorderly conduct for blocking traffic. This week she filed a suit against the city in federal court charging violation of her civil rights in the incident.