A teenager has won
$45,000 after accusing a New York police officer of arresting her when she
rejected his advances. The 19-year-old teenager from the Bronx, won the payout
from the city last week and charges stemming from the incident were dropped,
according to the New York Post.
Natalie Erlich, who was
17 at the time, said she was grabbing an after-school snack with two friends in
November 2013 when plainclothes officer, Jose Peinan and another cop approached
them. She said that he tried to strike up a
conversation with her by noting that her camouflage hat and his camouflage
pants matched. I brushed him off and I laughed, she recalled.
When she left, the officer followed her and tried
to continue speaking with her. She asked him if he was a cop and he accused her
of blowing his cover. A van pulled up and Peinan ordered other officers to take
her into custody. When she asked why she was being arrested, he responded: ‘You know why – you’re being a smartass.’
She and
a friend were searched and taken to the police station. The two women were
charged with Obstruction of Governmental Administration. She was released at
11am the next day. ‘I was scared,’ she
told the New York Post. ‘I didn’t know
what was going on.’
Erlich
filed a lawsuit against Peinan and the city, claiming the cop was ‘angered at
having his advances rebuffed’, court documents said.
The
city agreed to settle and the charges have been dropped.
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