{"id":123,"date":"2014-09-12T22:01:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T21:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/?p=123"},"modified":"2020-02-27T22:58:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T22:58:34","slug":"top-lawyer-for-city-public-advocate-sues-nypd-for-baseless-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/2014\/09\/12\/top-lawyer-for-city-public-advocate-sues-nypd-for-baseless-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Lawyer for City Public Advocate Sues NYPD for Baseless Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/lawyer-public-advocate-cops-roughed-suit-article-1.1926329\">Daily News<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A former top lawyer for Public Advocate Letitia James isn\u2019t exactly advocating for the NYPD\u2019s policing practices.<\/p><p>In a blistering lawsuit filed late Tuesday in Manhattan Federal \nCourt, Chaumtoli Huq, 42, says NYPD officers used \u201cunreasonable and \nwholly unprovoked force\u201d when they arrested her without cause while she \nwas leaving a pro-Palestinian protest in July.<\/p><p>The bust was \u201ccharacteristic of a pattern and practice of the NYPD in\n aggressive overpolicing of people of color and persons lawfully \nexercising their First Amendment rights,\u201d the suit says.<\/p><p>Huq, who says in her lawsuit she\u2019d taken a leave of absence as James\u2019\n general counsel to work on factory conditions in her native Bangladesh a\n day before the arrest, says she believes she was targeted because she\u2019s\n a Muslim woman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/lawyer-public-advocate-cops-roughed-suit-article-1.1926329#ixzz3D4FKh7Us\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News reports: A former top lawyer for Public Advocate Letitia James isn\u2019t exactly advocating for the NYPD\u2019s policing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}