NYPD Issuing Summonses For Loitering ON YOUR OWN STOOP!!!???
Allison | Monday, September 27, 2010 at 12:03AM 
Coming to a Park Slope stoop near you?
Per Gothamist, a dude hanging on his stoop in Flatbush was ticketed for trespassing ON HIS OWN FRONT STOOP.
Lindsey Riddick and his brother Michael were standing outside of Lindsey's Flatbush home on August 18 when police approached them: "I told the officer, 'I live here and I have the key.' You're giving me a summons? Come on, man. You got to be kidding me."
Despite his girlfriend and two daughters greeting him at the door of the apartment, he was still given a summons. Lindsey was able to record part of the exchange with police; when an officer told him to "go inside," Lindsey argued that he had a right to stand outside his own building. The cop responded: “You don’t own the street. You don’t own the sidewalk. You don’t own the building. You have no right to stand here."
What's next, I ask you?
Got your own sidewalk cop story to share? Spill.
Up until lately, the sum total of my knowledge came courtesy of Law and Order repeats but I've got a Kafka meets Bored to Death copper tale of my very own now that I really wish I could share but can't. Yet!
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Reader Comments (1)
Let me guess--was the guy in the original story by any chance BLACK?