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Cops Rough Up and Handcuff 15-Year-Old Girl for Using Her Student MetroCard
New York Magazine ^ | Caroline Bankoff | 08/04/2012

Posted on 08/04/2012 3:52:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The NYPD is investigating an incident involving the roughing up and handcuffing of a 15-year-old girl for using a student MetroCard officers believed was not hers. (Spoiler: They were wrong.) On July 26, summer-schooler Alexis Sumpter was waiting for the A train at 125th Street when two plainclothes officers — who had apparently seen a turnstile light indicating a student card had been swiped — approached her and demanded to know her age.

When Sumpter could not produce an ID, the cops called her a liar and summoned a third officer, who "[pressed] her face against the wall while the two others cuffed her" while saying they "didn't owe an explanation" for the harsh treatment. They then called Sumpter's father, who vouched for her age, but the girl was only uncuffed and released when her mother brought a copy of her birth certificate to the station. There, officers finally explained their reasoning, which was that her daughter "looked like an adult." Take note, teens: There are some disadvantages to looking older than your age — especially when you live in a city with a very, very aggressive police force.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: donutwatch
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To: CaptainK

It would be funny if what the gummit steamroller did to people wasn’t so sad. There’s a lot of truth to that. Rob a bank and the mayor will barely care. But if they think you’re cheating them out of some official revenue, woe betide you.


61 posted on 08/05/2012 5:23:37 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: Chode

Picture went up after my post so I didn’t see it until later.


62 posted on 08/05/2012 6:16:07 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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To: SkyDancer

And now that you’ve seen it?


63 posted on 08/05/2012 8:03:49 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1293 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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To: jocon307

What the H.E.L.L. has happened?


War on terror is now war on Americans.

Haven’t noticed the Muslim Brotherhood in the White House and government positions and all those Americans (especially the eldery, handicapped and children) being hand raped and x-rayed at the air ports?

Homeland inSecurity has spread that abusive attitude to all public transportation systems. In a war zone militarized cops are trained be an occupying force and to deal with insurgents. That is not the same as police purpose, interaction and practices of our constitutional republic.


64 posted on 08/05/2012 8:05:19 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: JAKraig
When the courts systematically fail to to be just, the application of justice devolves first to the police and then to vigilantes.
65 posted on 08/05/2012 8:19:17 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1293 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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To: null and void

I will have to retract part of my statement.


66 posted on 08/05/2012 8:20:11 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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To: SkyDancer

Or, perhaps, change a word to ‘ghetto’?


67 posted on 08/05/2012 8:35:39 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1293 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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To: SkyDancer
Her name is Alexis. What black girl who is 15 would be named that?

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Are you really this stupid?

68 posted on 08/05/2012 8:38:57 AM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: SkyDancer
But then, what white girl would be taking the subway? Alone?

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And the stupidity continues.

69 posted on 08/05/2012 1:52:38 PM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: CaptainK
illegals have freedom of movement at all times

Sadly, illegals are the only truly free people in America.

70 posted on 08/05/2012 1:55:32 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: null and void

When the courts systematically fail to to be just, the application of justice devolves first to the police and then to vigilantes. . . .

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In this particular case the courts will never see anything about it. The cops get away with it and the little girl or shall we say, society, will never have their day in court. Her lawyer will probably tell her to keep quiet and tell her she is lucky she didn’t get hurt, to just sht up and go away.

I recently got stopped for driving around a cone that was blocking my driveway. Somebody thought it would be a good idea to use my drive way for the finish line for some community race. Nobody told me, nobody asked me. When a local deputy tried to stop me from pulling into my drive way I ignored him and told him I live here, that he could shoot me if he wanted but I was pulling into my drive.

It was a stupid decision on my part. The cop decided to show me he was boss and while he didn’t shoot me it might have been better if he did. He instead arrested me.

I have prescription meds that I keep on me all the time in a little pill box. How did I know that the state had passed a law that all medicines, even over the counter meds must be kept in their original containers at all times. I ended up spending the night in jail for possession of illegal drugs. Never mind that I have the prescription, never mind that I was on my driveway. Never mind that I did not invite the cops or racers onto my property. This was just two weeks ago. This is insane.

I don’t trust the court system. I have a lawyer, I will likely have to pay something in the way of fines for carrying my perfectly legal drugs in an unauthorized container. Our society is broken.

When society get broken enough that enough people get abused they will stop putting up with it and they will organize and take the law into their own hands. Bad things will happen to people who now administer the law in the eyes of the vigilaities, unfairly. It will not be very pretty for some people.

If I am around when it happens, perhaps I will know that it is not good but, like the little 15 year old girl that was abused, and that is what she was, perhaps I might have a hard time wiping the smile off my face.


71 posted on 08/06/2012 8:32:48 AM PDT by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: JAKraig
Thus far, every interaction I have had with the Authoratahs has been professional and as pleasant as possible under the circumstances.

With luck that will continue.

That being said, I FULLY understand what you are saying, and when the system gets the percussive maintenance it so desperately requires, I will endeavor to keep a poker-face.

72 posted on 08/06/2012 9:04:28 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1294 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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