Defense Attorney Claims She was Wrongfully Arrested by Brooklyn Cops

“A public defense attorney was arrested, detained in a cell and separated from her beloved 7-pound Yorkie for eight hours last Sunday all because she recorded Brooklyn cops corralling suspects in a shoplifting investigation, the lawyer told the Daily News,” reports Noah Goldberg in New York Daily News.

“Legal Aid Cop Accountability Project attorney Molly Griffard was taking 9-year-old Harvey for a walk in her Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood on May 3 when she claims she saw cops taking a group of young men out of a bodega, throwing them up against the wall near the corner of Tompkins St. and Decatur Ave. and frisking them, she told The News.”

“She began to record the investigation on her phone while simultaneously informing the men of their right to remain silent and their right to an attorney — all from a safe distance, she said.”