Viral video footage shows several plainclothes NYPD officers dragging a teenager from a crowd of protesters and throwing her into an unmarked minivan in Manhattan on Tuesday evening, then driving off while bystanders scream in horror
Photo: @Naddleez/Twitter Viral video footage shows several plainclothes New York Police Department officers dragging a teenager from a crowd of protesters and throwing her into an unmarked minivan in Manhattan on Tuesday evening, then driving off while bystanders scream in horror. The footage was recorded by multiple people during a planned 24-hour demonstration against the NYPD, which seemed to be emulating aggressive tactics deployed by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, this month.
Witnesses to the detention described it on social media as a “kidnapping,” and the disturbing footage immediately stirred up mass outrage on social media. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response, “Our civil liberties are on [the] brink. This is not a drill. There is no excuse for snatching women off the street and throwing them into unmarked vans.”
Meanwhile, the NYPD claimed they were following standard procedures, confirming in a statement that cops had used an unmarked van to arrest the woman. They said she was “wanted for damaging police cameras during five separate criminal incidents in and around City Hall Park.” The cavalier response reads as if anyone might reasonably be disappeared off the streets of New York on suspicion of light property damage.
Bystanders have disputed claims of a physical altercation with police. 20-year-old Oxford student Clara Kraebber told Gothamist, “None of that happened whatsoever. We literally turned the corner and were met with a line of police who attacked us without warning.” Kraebber said protesters had been “skateboarding and eating pizza” when they were accosted by police officers who pepper sprayed the gathering “seemingly at random.
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