A video of a transgender woman captured and arrested in New York City by plainclothes police officers in an unmarked van surfaced online Tuesday.
The incident has sparked nationwide outrage over police tactics.Police arrested Nikki Stone, an 18-year-old transgender woman while she skateboarded past the intersection of 2nd Ave and 25th Street.
The officers wore only t-shirts and khaki or navy blue shorts and fanny packs, and had no other outward characteristics to indicate they worked for law enforcement.
The group of officers shoved Stone in a minivan where they arrested her.Another angle of plainclothes officers pushing a protester into a minivan on 2nd Ave near 25th earlier tonight.