Couple arrested for dancing while waiting for the train in New York. [View all]
Source: Your Jewish News
A couple waiting for the train to arrive decided to dance a little but they were arrested by New York City Police officers.
Caroline Stern, 55, and her boyfriend George Hess, 54, claim they were handcuffed by having happy feet on the platform of the subway station at Columbus Circle and spent 23 hours in custody as a result.
It was almost midnight when Stern and Hess, a teacher of film and prop industry headed home last July from Jazz at the Lincoln Center Swing Night of San Juan. While waiting for the train, a musician began playing the steel drums in the nearly empty platform, and Stern and Hess began to feel the rhythm.
The police asked for identification, but when Stern, could only produce a credit card, the officers ordered the couple to go with them even though the credit card had the image of the dentist and the firm.
When Hess began trying to film the encounter, things got ugly, Stern said.
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I know there are a lot of other things happening in the world, but we've really got to do something about police brutality.
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