A federal lawsuit filed Monday in Manhattan accuses the Port Authority Police Department of wrongly arresting men on charges of public lewdness after they used the bathroom in its Midtown bus terminal. The suit, which seeks class-action status, alleges plainclothes officers target men whom they perceive as gay in an effort to boost quality-of life arrest statistics. These officers see men at urinals, sometimes by peering around the...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 27, 2017 21:00 UTC