Crime & Safety
Millburn Woman Sues NYPD for 'Inappropriate' Search
Samantha Rosenbaum said police officer peered into her underwear during stop on a Brooklyn street last year.
A 22-year-old woman from Millburn is suing the New York City police department after an officer allegedly peeked inside her bra and shorts during a search on a Brooklyn, N.Y. street last year, NJ.com reported.
Samantha Rosenbaum said she was returning to her internship at a vegan clothing store in Wiliamsburg July 17, 2012, when she stopped to look at a kitten. A plainclothes police officer ordered her to stand still, then emerged from an unmarked car followed by another female police officer when Rosenbaum—who said she did not know they were police—tried to walk away.
Rosenbaum claims the officers slammed her against their car and asked her if she were in possession of drugs, threatening to take her to the station if she failed to cooperate.
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The female officer then searched her, pulling down the front of her shirt and peering into her bra. The officer also pulled the waistband of her shorts and looked at her underpants, NJ.com quoted Rosenbaum as saying.
A spokesperson for the city said it was evaluating Rosenbaum’s claim, The New York Post reported.In a recent radio interview on WOR-AM, New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the police's stop-and-frisk practices and argued it stops white people too often, just under 10 percent, and nonwhite not enough.
Rosenbaum, who is white, also told the Post, "I don’t think anyone, no matter what color you are, deserves to be treated like that."
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