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# Topless Woman Files Suit After Being Arrested At Bath Beach Park
- URL: https://bklyner.com/topless-woman-files-suit-after-being-arrested-at-bath-beach-park-bensonhurst/
- Published: 2013-10-09T13:00:24.000Z
- Updated: 2013-10-09T13:00:24.000Z
- Author: wsimpson
- Tags: 68th Precinct, Calvert Vaux Park, jessica krigsman, new york court of appeals, obstruction of a sitting area, topless, #API-Imported

![Krigsman (via Facebook)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/krigsman-199x300.jpg)

Krigsman (via Facebook)

A woman who shed her top in Calvert Vaux Park is filing a suit against the NYPD after officers arrested her in the summer of 2012\. The New York Daily News is [reporting](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/bklyn-woman-arrested-sunbathing-topless-article-1.1479588?ref=bklyner.com) that Jessica Krigsman is arguing that her constitutional rights were violated as a result of the arrest.

In case you didn’t know (but, really, why wouldn’t you?), a 1992 New York Court of Appeals decision makes it legal for a woman to be topless in the city anywhere a man can be. After police told Krigsman to put on a shirt, she was arrested after “mouthing off” to officers about her rights to be topless. The Daily News described the scene and what she was ultimately charged with:

> Krigsman “politely informed” the cops she wasn’t breaking any laws, prompting the officers to arrest her and put her shirt over her head “in a very aggressive manner,” the documents said.After five hours at the 68th Precinct station house, she was issued a summons for Obstruction of a Sitting Area, a little known violation of the Parks Department code that prohibits hoarding of benches.

> That summons was dismissed three months later, the suit said.

> Krigsman is asking for unspecified damages for false arrest, malicious prosecution and violations of constitutional rights.

I guess the real truth of the matter will finally be exposed in a court of law when all the facts will be bared. Get it?!

On a side note: I’m really impressed at the Daily News’ ability to turn a civil rights matter into a softcore porn photo spread. Go journalism!