Topless in downtown New York
New York model Cheyenne Lutek (Cheyenne Lutek) decided to check how the laws work in the Big Apple, and whether now all women can safely walk around New York half-naked. Indeed, at the beginning of the year, it was decided that “forbidding a woman to be topless in a public place is nothing more than gender discrimination.”
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1. The New York Times reports that back in February, all 34,000 city police officers received the following instruction from their superiors: “A woman who simply exposes her breasts in public does not commit anything illegal.”
2. If a topless woman attracts the attention of a crowd, law enforcement officers are ordered to disperse the crowd and arrest those who do not want to leave.
3. The police decision is linked to the activities of photographer and activist Holly Van Voast, known for her habit of appearing topless in public places. Police arrested her topless ten times in 2011 and 2012, including at the Oyster Bar, Hooters Restaurant, Grand Central Station, across from an elementary school in Manhattan, and on the city subway.
4. As a result, Van Voast's attorneys secured the dismissal of all charges against her in a 1992 decision in the State Supreme Court. Then a judge by the name of Titone ruled that forbidding a woman to be topless in a public place is nothing more than gender discrimination.
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10. Men who want to enjoy a large-scale free striptease are advised to come in the second half of August.
11. After all, August 21 in the USA is National Topless Day.