A transgender woman who says she was arrested while walking through a park, mocked by New York City police officers and wrongly charged with criminal trespass and “false personation” launched a civil rights-based lawsuit against the police department Tuesday.

The woman, Linda Dominguez, who has seen both criminal charges against her dismissed, claims in her Bronx Supreme Court filing that while being held overnight in an NYPD precinct cell in pink handcuffs, various officers used “gestures, glares, and mocking and disgusted tones of voice” that made fun of her transgender status.

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