Map courtesy of GoogleĬollective Governors Island is an urban glamping retreat located on - you guessed it - Governors Island, which is just a stone’s throw from downtown Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty and Red Hook in Brooklyn. But if you’ve ever dreamed of staying at an urban NYC retreat where you can spend the night outdoors, I’ve found the perfect place for you. Unless new leaders come forth who understand their duty to maintain the rule of law, the country will not pull back from disaster.When I think of places to stay in New York City, the last place that crosses my mind is… outdoors. If local and national leaders are unable to summon the will to defend our most basic institutions from false and inflammatory charges of racism, they have forfeited their right to govern. These are no longer the warning signs of a possible breakdown of civilized life. Otherwise, warns the LBA president, officers are merely being set up for a new slew of phony civilian complaints. The head of the Lieutenants Benevolent Association in New York has advised its members to use their “utmost discretion” in responding to fireworks complaints unless New York mayor Bill de Blasio “unequivocally commits to having our officers enforce fireworks infractions AND the District Attorneys verbally commit to processing fireworks offenses” (emphasis in original).
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Officers across the country are being told to ignore low-level offenses, and urban D.A.s are refusing to prosecute public-order arrests, on the ground that Broken Windows policing is racist-until, that is, an outbreak of particularly irksome disorder becomes too widespread, as is the case with the current fireworks discharges. The New York Police Commissioner has disbanded the department’s most effective tool for getting illegal guns off the street, the plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit. Meanwhile, criminal-justice leaders themselves are surrendering.
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All that is seen is police officers facing demonstrators who are camped out on the sidewalk.Īs Heather Mac Donald points out in this excellent piece in City Journal, the entire establishment appears to be surrendering. One person claimed on Twitter that the NYPD stormed the protesters’ camp “full of aggression, looking to agitate,“ as “many where serving breakfast and cleaning.” But the video doesn’t back up that claim. One cop can be seen grabbing a person’s umbrella and throwing it on the ground.
Officers are shown pushing through the crowd as the protesters shove back, some using their umbrellas to block or strike cops. One wonders if city hall is seen by the political elites as expendable. The cops were undisciplined - a “police riot” as it was referred to in the official report - but the fact is, thousands of protesters were moving toward the nerve center of democracy. What they got was a phalanx of beefy Chicago cops wading into the crowd swinging their nightsticks. The protest organizers were hoping to provoke a riot by tossing rocks, stones, and bags of human feces and urine at police. Whoever did probably figured the risk of a serious confrontation outweighed anything gained by retaking control of the area directly in front of the most sensitive power center in the city.ĭuring the 1968 Democratic convention, when protesters in Chicago approached the hotel where Hubert Humphrey was staying - the nerve center of the campaign and where the Democratic National Committee was meeting - Chicago police pushed back. “Whose streets? Our streets!” roared the protesters as they filled the sidewalks.Īnother clip shows protesters mocking cops and singing, “Na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye” as the officers approach the arch at 1 Centre Street.Īs was the case Tuesday, tensions came to a head when protesters became enraged as police removed barricades they had illegally set up. Radio host Dan Bongino tweeted, “We’re entering Snake Pliskin territory in New York City. NYPD leave their positions at City Hall in NYC, leaving it to Antifa and Black Lives Matter at the new CHAZ. GVTzFsjFgsĪfter some minor confrontations between protesters and police, the cops retreat. Fights are ensuing on the ground … I’m on top of a bus. Incredibly tense as protesters and cops stand off just around 6 this morning in NY.
More and more have arrived at Occupy City Hall and are taking back the barriers that protesters made for the encampment /JZRqWeYd01
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In this series of tweets courtesy of Shelby Talcott, the police are shown being provoked, but mostly maintaining their cool. The protesters assembled several makeshift barricades that the cops finally began to remove yesterday.
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