Comrades, the ministry of coronavirus compliance is making it easy to be a good state citizen. If you spot a non-compliant citizen participating in life without adhering to the dictates of the state, there’s now mobile APP’s for quick snitching. Comrade citizens are now able to take a picture of the non-compliant behavior (citizen spotted outdoors, not wearing a mask, unauthorized gatherings etc), upload the picture to the state ministry, and the state compliance division will dispatch local enforcement teams to correct the non-compliant behavior, or remove the citizen.
Trump forced their hand. They didn't want to roll it out when they did but they were running out of options. They would have rather this thing blew up after the election. This isn't going to work out for them. [Reply]
I think NYC is going to allow that public call to prayer to be broadcast for Muslims because we allow church bells to ring at times. I don't know if any of you have been in a Muslim country, but an Iman calls out over loudspeakers for Muslims to pray. I think they do that in Minneapolis already—aka Little Mogadishu. [Reply]
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has deferred the charges against a man caught up in the police-involved social distancing fracas in the East Village.
Now-viral cellphone video of the Saturday incident showed plainclothes Officer Francisco Garcia slapping and punching 33-year-old Donni Wright over an alleged social distancing violation after cops broke up a group near the corner of East Ninth Street and Avenue D.
Taser-wielding NYPD cop punches bystander during social-distancing bust
“Move the f—k back right now!” a taser-toting Garcia yells as he breaks away from the melee to confront a group of bystanders, including Wright.
“What you flexing for? Don’t flex,” Garcia said, according to the clip.
Garcia can then be seen wrestling Wright to the sidewalk and whacking him as another cop moves in to help cuff him.
Wright was ultimately charged with assault of a police officer, menacing and resisting arrest, but those charges were put off by the DA’s office pending further investigation, a spokesperson said.
Garcia was stripped of his gun and placed on modified duty, pending a probe by the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau.
Before the incident involving Wright, cops arrested two others on charges of resisting arrest. One was also charged with marijuana possession and the other was hit with criminal possession of a weapon for a stun gun she was allegedly carrying.
Commenting on the wild incident on NY1 Monday morning, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said: “This did start out as a social distancing encounter — it escalated into what you see on this video with a total of three arrests made, recovery of a small amount of I believe marijuana, recovery of a Taser that was not an NYPD Taser in this encounter.”
“The officer involved was placed on modified assignment that evening while we conducted an internal review by our internal affairs unit of the entire encounter,” Shea said. “So that’s where we stand now, there’s still some interviews being done.”
The top cop added that the department is “trying to gain all the facts,” but noted that there was “certainly some tactics that I was not happy with.”
Numerous local jurisdictions have lawsuits challenging the power of governors or local officials to shut down gun shops, churches and public protests.
Courts are agreeing with the plaintiffs and ruling that officials have overstepped their lawful authority too.
Except lawyers are only filing on narrow violations of rights, such as first or second amendment rights, which avoids overturning public officials’ power to mandate a full range of restrictions—powers which such officials also do not possess.
We need calls for much broader rulings on the constitutional issues. [Reply]
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.@NYCPBA calls for end of @NYPDnews policing of social distancing: “As the weather heats up & the pandemic continues to unravel our social fabric, police officers should be allowed to focus on our core public safety mission. If we don’t, the city will fall apart before our eyes.”
Three California counties have announced that they will start reopening their economic sectors, despite Governor Newsom's EO and
April 30 statement that county officials can't relax his state order. They are Modoc, Yuba, and Sutter.
It's starting folks. Good to see not everyone in Cali is a brain-dead arse-licking govt twat. [Reply]
