NEW YORK — A Brooklyn animal rights activist arrested after complaining about parking tickets being given to volunteers at an animal adoption fair is suing the city.
Laurie Bleier claims the NYPD traffic enforcement agent who arrested her falsely accused her of punching him. Bleier says their run-in came after she complained the summonses being given to people dropping off homeless pets were hurting the non-profit Brooklyn Animal Foster Network.
Traffic Agent Lying to Justify Tickets?
NEW YORK — A Brooklyn animal rights activist arrested after complaining about parking tickets being given to volunteers at an animal adoption fair is suing the city.
Laurie Bleier claims the NYPD traffic enforcement agent who arrested her falsely accused her of punching him. Bleier says their run-in came after she complained the summonses being given to people dropping off homeless pets were hurting the non-profit Brooklyn Animal Foster Network.
The assault charge against Bleier was dismissed in January, according to a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
“Traffic agents routinely make up lies to justify parking tickets and it is not beneath them to make false allegations for the purpose of having someone who they do not like arrested,” said Bleier’s lawyer, Richard Cardinale.
Muriel Goode-Trufant, chief of the Law Department’s federal litigation division, said the lawsuit is being reviewed.
But Bleier is still facing criminal charges for harassing the executive director of Animal Care & Control of New York City, another nonprofit organization that picks up stray animals and operates a shelter system in the five boroughs, said a spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.
Bleier is accused of barraging Charlene Pedrolie with threatening e-mails and phone calls and scrawling the message “F— Charlene” on a bulletin board at ACC’s office in Brooklyn. That confrontation came after Bleier’s group was banned from placing ACC animals in foster care.
Yossi
Traffic tickets are supposed to enforce the Parking Laws
Traffic tickets were not meant to generate $$$ for New York City
The people
Traffic tickets and every other ticket are made to produce negative issues in all citys and countys in the usa. Negative issues start with some type of racism, extorsion that the brownies do, and qoutas that are met with fantom tickets.
tomhoser
thats the reason so many of the brown shirts were beaten up; they had it coming!
Laurie Beier
Good news on this one. Ms. Bleier had all charges dropped and just successfully sued the city for $30,000!