Posted on 06/24/2007 9:03:07 AM PDT by new yorker 77
MAMARONECK - A group of people protesting the new day laborer hiring site in Mamaroneck stormed a village trustee’s house Saturday.
The rally was to take place at the Strait Gate Church on Old White Plains Road to protest the controversial day laborer hiring site that recently opened. However, the group decided to take their concerns straight to Village Board Trustee Tom Murphy's house, who voted for the new site.
The protesters, who live near the hiring site, say they are not opposed to having a place for the day laborers. They say they want the site moved out of the residential area due to traffic tie-ups and quality of life issues.
As it is now, day laborers have to be inside the church and wait to be called on by a contractor. The former hiring site at Columbus Park was shut down last February by the village because of traffic and safety concerns.
The group was also protesting Murphy's approval of a settlement in the federal lawsuit filed by day laborers who claimed they were discriminated against.
The group says they will continue to protest until the site is moved to a commercial area.
FYI
A day laborer hiring site is a commercial activity, and should be located in a commercial location that can deal with the traffic and activity
I watched the video. Those vicious people?
put the center if front of Murphy’s house!
I watched the video, also. There was no storming going on at all. The protesters were on a side street not directly in front of the house and the trustee, looking a bit hangdog, was sitting on his front porch steps in shorts and shades.
If someone is going to use the term “storm” they better show proof.
“if someone is going to use the term “storm” they better show proof.”
a “journalist” doesn’t have to show proof because he is attempting to make the world a better place in which to live. (he can be as untruthful as he wishes, as long as it complies with the long-term agenda of the left.)
Agree or not, if protesters stormed my house, I would be shooting vigorously as they entered the door or window.
The protesters should have just set up lawn chairs and coolers on the front lawn of the guy’s house.
Then, when he called the police, they could say, “We’re not trespassers, we’re ‘undocumented residents’ of this house!”
Mark
I’d be tempted to make up some signs in Spanish, and set them out about 6am, directing the day laborers to the politicians house.
Oops, day laborers may look a little different in New York. I see that it is a black Baptist church.
What did they do, kick in the doors, launch tear gas grenades through windows and brandish "assault weapons" like our police do routinely? No? the audio said it was a peaceful protest, where was the "storm"? Big surprise that the dino media is dying.
Races in Mamaroneck:
White Non-Hispanic (82.0%)
Hispanic (10.9%)
Other race (2.9%)
Black (2.8%)
Two or more races (2.1%)
Japanese (1.0%)
Chinese (0.7%)
Asian Indian (0.6%)
If it’s like here, the day laborers come from out of town. But also around here, it would be unusual for a Black church to provide a ministry to Hispanics. I was thinking a liberal white mainline church, until I did a quick Google.
Perhaps it was a 'compound' they stormed, instead of a house.
I remember Mamaroneck being lily white, so I would think it was a do-gooder chuch too.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
The MSM had no worries about showing the faces of the “stormtroopers”
The faces of the illegal aliens were never shown
I also notice that the reporters are careful to not show the faces of the "day laborers"
news article states
The Strait Gate Church, a Protestant church with a largely black congregation of 1,300 families, is in the Washingtonville section of the village. It is close to the former village-designated hiring site at Columbus Park, which was closed in January 2006 with a 3-2 vote by the village's Board of Trustees. In exchange for use of the space, the Hispanic Resource Center will hire one of the church's staff members to help run the site.Money talks
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