[sargon]

If you get popped for something and can’t or won’t show ID to the nice officer, the nice officer can indeed conduct your sweet backside to the hoosegow.

That’s pretty much how it works anywhere, not just Fun City.

You mean fascist city? No, that's not "pretty much how it works anywhere."

It's total bullshit. I don't have to be carrying an ID to walk around this country in public. There was no reasonable cause for the arrest, except the cop being a Tyrannical asshole.

Additionally, the ID could apparently have been retrieved within a few short minutes, being only two blocks away. Too much bother for a NYPD cop, I guess.

Better to waste huge amounts of time and public resources ferrying this "criminal" back and forth across town for a couple of days, and then having a judge with some sense summarily dismiss the charge.

It astounds me what some people are willing to submit to, all in the holy name of "law and order." It's downright un-American.

[PapaBear3625]

The NYTimes article contains a tiny clue about what got the cop riled up:

Twice, she said, the officer told her not to call him by a specific foul term.

“I said, ‘Sir, I never used that word.’ ”

No doubt he was hearing things: the unspoken truth about his unspeakable actions.

Methinks the officer got the impression that this white suburban girl called him a name, and didn't like being "disrespected".