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I find it despicable that this is happening but it's part of free speech and it is what it is. I understand that there are bad cops and we all know this. I think generally most LEO are basically trying to do a good job, again, bad apples aside. I lean toward giving the police the benefit of the doubt. We only hear about the bad stuff that happens, generally speaking. There are tens of thousand of instances where law enforce interacts with the public and things are fine, peaceful, whatever. We just live in the if it "bleeds it leads" society, unfortunately.
Hopefully it goes down peacefully and no one gets injured.
I find it despicable that this is happening but it's part of free speech and it is what it is. I understand that there are bad cops and we all know this. I think generally most LEO are basically trying to do a good job, again, bad apples aside. I lean toward giving the police the benefit of the doubt. We only hear about the bad stuff that happens, generally speaking. There are tens of thousand of instances where law enforce interacts with the public and things are fine, peaceful, whatever. We just live in the if it "bleeds it leads" society, unfortunately.
Hopefully it goes down peacefully and no one gets injured.
Vandalism and jumping over turnstiles are not free speech.
You might not approve of it, but you get why it's happening.
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Lifelong NYer here, and I say bull. I don't approve of it, and there is no justification for it. Their "demands" are ludicrous. Anyone riding the subway will see for themselves that the minorities above ground are the majority below ground. There is not a single cop who would release a fare-beater because his or her skin color isn't dark enough, nor arrest one because it isn't light enough. What those cops have to deal with down there day in and day out alone is enough to raise them to hero status in my eyes. The knot in my stomach when I ride the subways only dissipates when I see a cop on the platform. You take away the cops, and the subways will be like the movie Escape from New York.
whoever came up with this 'disproportionality' bullsheet should be covered in karo syrup and staked to a hill of fire ants for a few days.
the very idea that people have to receive punishment proportional to their numerical population, not their actual behavior, is jaw-dropping stupidity.
13% of the population, 90% of the crime and problems. Yet they’re paid by taxpayers to breed indiscriminately. We spay and neuter feral cats to prevent problems, don’t we?
Lifelong NYer here, and I say bull. I don't approve of it, and there is no justification for it. Their "demands" are ludicrous. Anyone riding the subway will see for themselves that the minorities above ground are the majority below ground. There is not a single cop who would release a fare-beater because his or her skin color isn't dark enough, nor arrest one because it isn't light enough. What those cops have to deal with down there day in and day out alone is enough to raise them to hero status in my eyes. The knot in my stomach when I ride the subways only dissipates when I see a cop on the platform. You take away the cops, and the subways will be like the movie Escape from New York.
LOL. Living in NYC and being frightened by the subway seems very....inconvenient, no?
As a new Yorker. I don't approve of this. Destroying the subway makes it worse for people of color to get around. If black and brown people are so angry about the police. Boycott the mta, and boycott the NYPD and make your own law enforcement for black and brown people. If tur Jews in Brooklyn can have their own police force, let black folks especially those that live in projects have their own police force and let them deal with their own issues. And let the unit be supervised by black academics.
However folks have a right to protest, just as long as it's none violent and does not destroy property regardless of ownership.
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