This just in from the NYCLU: The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court on behalf of a Columbia University graduate student of Indian descent who was unlawfully handcuffed and detained in July after a police officer saw him snapping photographs near a subway station in upper Manhattan.

“I was surprised and upset that I could be handcuffed on the street for taking a photograph,” Arun Wiita said. “What was really disheartening was that I knew this had probably happened before and that it could happen again to anyone.” (more…)