(HuffingtonPost) – Naomi Wolf is a permit nerd.

In her recent book, “Give Me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries,” she dedicated ample space to dissecting — and critiquing — the process in which citizens go about obtaining permits for demonstrations, and how permitting has been killing First Amendment protections one regulation at a time. She paid special focus to New York City.

On Tuesday night, the author and feminist experienced first hand this alleged curbing of free speech. Instead of reading her book, the New York Police Department threw the book at her. Wolf, along with her partner, was arrested after not complying with an officer’s orders to leave a sidewalk outside a Huffington Post event honoring Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the Game Changer of the year.

In an interview with HuffPost on Wednesday, Wolf said the police got it wrong when they arrested her. “I was taken into custody for disobeying an unlawful order,” she explained. “The issue is that I actually know New York City permit law … I didn’t choose to get myself arrested. I chose to obey the law and that didn’t protect me.” Huffington Post

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