Nobody should be getting strip-searched for selling mangos, writes chrisecrowley
María Falcon was arrested on April 29. Photo: Artane_33/Reddit For years, New York City street vendors’ complaints about police harassment seemed to fall on deaf ears. There was hope that this could change during COVID, when many vendors found themselves unable to work and yet other unemployed workers turned to selling food on the streets.
Police are still arresting vendors too. On April 29, subway fruit vendor María Falcon was at the Broadway Junction station when she was handcuffed by two officers and taken away. Her daughter was present and filmed the arrest in a video that was shared over the weekend by the advocacy organization the Street Vendor Project. It didn’t go unnoticed that the arrest happened at the same station where a churro vendor was arrested in 2019.
For years, New York’s street vendors — who are largely immigrants and people of color – have complained of police harassment, and Falcon’s arrest has sparked a fresh round of outrage. What is the point of this? One obvious answer is that street vendors are victims of broken-windows policing. The way they’re described by some, such as BIDs, is as a scourge and a blemish on the city’s streets.
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