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Yeah it really feels like the NYPD has a lot of contempt for the city they operate in, politically, socially, culturally. I saw the same thing at every protest

by sjm 5y ago

Yeah it really feels like the NYPD has a lot of contempt for the city they operate in, politically, socially, culturally. I saw the same thing at every protest I attended — when there were no cops around, it was extremely peaceful. I only ever saw it get ugly when cops were harassing people, pushing people around, or trying to basically shut down protests by blocking off surrounding streets and trying to close in on protesters.

JumpCrisscross 5y ago
> NYPD has a lot of contempt for the city they operate in A lot of New York cops live outside the areas they patrol. The ones who live in the city are overrepresented on Staten Island. That said, for every peaceful protest last summer there were unprovoked nighttime riots which seemed to occur more when the cops were somewhere else.
- addicted 5y ago
  My sister lives on 6th Ave. cops would congregate right outside her building before the protests so she could observe the entire process. The cops were deliberately ignoring the rioters while strong arming the largely peaceful protestors. She has videos of 50 cops standing while someone broke into a store (by throwing a rock through the glass window), picked up a POS system, and runs, with not a single cop twitching, while just a few hours earlier you had their lieutenant or whatever come kneel with the protesters and as soon as the higher ups left, cops attack 100 lb women from behind as they were walking away. They were deliberately attacking peaceful protestors and deliberately ignoring looters and rioters. You could also see on the signal app which was tracking these gangs of kids who were looting major stores like Macy’s, as well as protestors, and the cops were always where the protestors were and never where the rioters, who were only a few blocks behind, were. It was a very blatant attempt by the NYPD to make the protests appear violent by encouraging looting while discouraging peaceful protesting.
- sangnoir 5y ago
  > ...which seemed to occur more when the cops were somewhere else. Perhaps they were too busy deploying their sleep deprivation tactics[1] on sleeping citizens by lazily driving around the target neighborhood with the sirens on at 3 am, for no legitimate policing reason. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality/comments/hduu3h/nypd_drives_around_harlem_with_their_sirens_on_at/ https://www.reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality/comments/hduu3h...

by sjm 5y ago

JumpCrisscross 5y ago

> NYPD has a lot of contempt for the city they operate in A lot of New York cops live outside the areas they patrol. The ones who live in the city are overrepresented on Staten Island. That said, for every peaceful protest last summer there were unprovoked nighttime riots which seemed to occur more when the cops were somewhere else.

addicted 5y ago
My sister lives on 6th Ave. cops would congregate right outside her building before the protests so she could observe the entire process. The cops were deliberately ignoring the rioters while strong arming the largely peaceful protestors. She has videos of 50 cops standing while someone broke into a store (by throwing a rock through the glass window), picked up a POS system, and runs, with not a single cop twitching, while just a few hours earlier you had their lieutenant or whatever come kneel with the protesters and as soon as the higher ups left, cops attack 100 lb women from behind as they were walking away. They were deliberately attacking peaceful protestors and deliberately ignoring looters and rioters. You could also see on the signal app which was tracking these gangs of kids who were looting major stores like Macy’s, as well as protestors, and the cops were always where the protestors were and never where the rioters, who were only a few blocks behind, were. It was a very blatant attempt by the NYPD to make the protests appear violent by encouraging looting while discouraging peaceful protesting.
sangnoir 5y ago
> ...which seemed to occur more when the cops were somewhere else. Perhaps they were too busy deploying their sleep deprivation tactics[1] on sleeping citizens by lazily driving around the target neighborhood with the sirens on at 3 am, for no legitimate policing reason. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality/comments/hduu3h/nypd_drives_around_harlem_with_their_sirens_on_at/ https://www.reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality/comments/hduu3h...