Nude Model Sues NYPD For Unlawful Arrest

Back in 2011, artist Andy Golub held a body painting exhibition in Times Square, and Texas-based model Karla Storie was arrested and charged with "public lewdness and exposure." According to the New York Post (link below), even though the charges were dropped in 2012, she is now suing the NYPD and the city of New York for illegal censorship.

She says she only dropped her underwear for “seconds” before her nether region was covered by paint.

But she was cuffed in the pedestrian plaza at 44th Street and Broadway and charged with public lewdness and exposure.

State law “does not criminalize public nudity when engaged in it for purposes of an exhibition of art,” Storie’s Manhattan civil suit states.

Storie is asking for unspecified damages.

A fellow model who participated in the same stunt won a $15,000 settlement from the city in 2012.

Well, that certainly bodes well for her case.

Via The New York Post