Unlicensed Vendor Selling Psychedelics Arrested After Ignoring Warnings at Brooklyn Farmers Market
• Unlicensed vendor selling psychedelic mushrooms and other items arrested at Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza farmers market • Vendor, known as "Trippy Gawdz," had repeatedly ignored warnings from parks officers over several weeks • Video shows officers wrestling vendor to ground, seizing his merchandise and pet cat • Recent crackdowns on unlicensed vendors happening across NYC, including booting vendors from Grand Army Plaza • Bystanders criticize arrest as too aggressive, say unlicensed vendors add to community feel of the market