I am Lauren Farmer.
I live in New York City.
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Thursday, June 12th
9:40am
This is what you call being in the right place at the right time (or the wrong place/wrong time, depending on how you feel about the situation). I was minding my own business last night walking home from the gym, past Port Authority, trailing 4 police officers on regular patrol. All of the sudden, their radios started buzzing and all I could make out is “cab” and “front of Port Authority” and I quickly realized “Oh shit! That’s where we are!” There were 3 cabs parked out the front of PA, the cops cautiously approached the first one, nothing. Approached the second one, nothing. As they crept up to the third I heard one of them say “this is it, this is it” and all four of them drew their guns (I’d never seen that before!) 2 went on one side, 2 on the other and approached the cab, tapped on the driver’s side window, pulled the door open and dragged the cab driver out, throwing him to the ground, cuffing him. I thought about videoing, but I was legitimately concerned for my safety so I settled for this photo. Shortly after, more cops arrived and asked us to all move along, so I did. I never found out what was going on. Pretty exciting though, and this is an awesome photo.

This is what you call being in the right place at the right time (or the wrong place/wrong time, depending on how you feel about the situation).

I was minding my own business last night walking home from the gym, past Port Authority, trailing 4 police officers on regular patrol. All of the sudden, their radios started buzzing and all I could make out is “cab” and “front of Port Authority” and I quickly realized “Oh shit! That’s where we are!” There were 3 cabs parked out the front of PA, the cops cautiously approached the first one, nothing. Approached the second one, nothing. As they crept up to the third I heard one of them say “this is it, this is it” and all four of them drew their guns (I’d never seen that before!) 2 went on one side, 2 on the other and approached the cab, tapped on the driver’s side window, pulled the door open and dragged the cab driver out, throwing him to the ground, cuffing him.

I thought about videoing, but I was legitimately concerned for my safety so I settled for this photo. Shortly after, more cops arrived and asked us to all move along, so I did. I never found out what was going on. Pretty exciting though, and this is an awesome photo.