A federal prosecutor has sued a group of New York City Police Department officers, arguing that she was wrongly arrested after a traffic stop in Hell’s Kitchen in November.

In an interview Monday, assistant U.S. attorney Bianca Forde of the District of Columbia said she and her partner were in New York for Thanksgiving weekend and decided to go to a comedy show. After leaving the show, they were pulled over, and the police told Forde’s partner, who was driving, to step out of the car.