23 September 2010
NEW YORK -- A New York man said police gave him a ticket for trespassing while he was standing outside of his own apartment.
Lindsey Riddick, 36, who joined a class-action lawsuit against the New York Police Department alleging officers gave out illegal summonses to meet quotas, said he and his brother were ticketed by police while outside of his apartment building, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
"I told the officer, 'I live here and I have the key,'" Riddick said. "You're giving me a summons? Come on, man. You got to be kidding me."
Jon Norinsberg, a lawyer representing the brothers and 20 other plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit, said police handed out the summonses illegally to meet quotas. "This is another example of police trespassing on people's constitutional rights just to fill a quota," Norinsberg said. "There's something terribly wrong with how the NYPD operates and it has to be fixed."
Source: UPI.
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