Prominent Twitch streamer Nina Lin was arrested in Midtown on Saturday night during the Knicks game when she was caught riding around atop an Amazon delivery vehicle.
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Prominent Twitch streamer Nina Lin was arrested in Midtown on Saturday night during the Knicks game when she was caught riding around atop an Amazon delivery vehicle.
According to police sources, the incident unfolded around 9:30 p.m. just outside of Bryant Park on 42nd Street and 6th Avenue. Lin — who streams on Twitch under the name NinaDaddyisBack — was filming while sitting atop a moving Amazon delivery vehicle when a large crowd surrounded her in the street.
Police immediately surrounded the vehicle and demanded she dismount. However, before doing so, she could be seen handing some of her equipment to her camera man.
“They are not going to arrest you, shit,” she told her cameraman before immediately being handcuffed and taken into custody for disorderly conduct. She later said she thought she was only being helped down by the police and did not realize she was going to be detained.
She was released with a desk appearance ticket around 4 a.m.
“I celebrated the f**king Knicks win in the cell,” Lin later said on her stream. “How the f**k I celebrate the Knicks in the cell?”
She also went on a tirade against her cameraman, who she said made a run for it after she was handcuffed with all of her valuables.
“How the f**k are you a cameraman, and you run off?” She asked. “He has my setup, he has my tripod, he has my portable, he has my passport. I fly to Bali tomorrow night.”
Lin has 537K followers on Twitch.
