Everyone knows that squeegee workers aren’t workers at all. They are low-level extortionists. So it’s simply wrong to give them the honorable title of “worker”. But, hey. That’s the state of American journalism these days.
Exactly. You are trapped in your car at at traffic light and these ... men... are little more than beggars.
This con was widespread in NYC a long time ago. Various excuses in our shameful and decrepit “system of justice” led to the criminals getting off and the decent citizens having to cower in fear to avoid discrimination charges.
The American people allow the soft on crime system to go on all this time later.
Cops in fear of being arrested and citizens on the run while criminals laugh and smirk.
NY Post article from two years ago...
https://nypost.com/2020/02/16/squeegee-men-scourge-of-the-90s-are-back-in-new-york/