Fly By Night

It starts with your dog. Then it’s how you dress. The hemline. What you can wear on the street before someone decides it’s a problem. Then it’s the LGBT community. The bars. The music. And before you know it, you’re wondering whether you can still walk around New York at night like it’s your city. This is just the beginning of what you voted in. I hope some of you are going to watch this video and finally ask yourselves, “What the fuck did we do?” Around 3 a.m. in Murray Hill, two NYPD officers stopped a nurse while she was walking her leashed dog. The officers said she was in the street. She said she had the walk signal. One of them grabbed her arm, and you can hear her telling him he was hurting her. Bystanders started filming, called 911, and demanded a supervisor. Even with people asking them directly, the officers never clearly said what law she’d broken. She kept her dog. I hope she goes after both of them hard. The two officers in the video are Asfak Mahmud, shield 10087, and Mohammed S. Ahmed, shield 22523, both of the NYPD’s 17th Precinct. I’d file complaints with NYPD Internal Affairs and the Civilian Complaint Review Board and talk to a civil rights attorney about a possible lawsuit against the officers and the city. I want to hear exactly what justified putting hands on her.