Posted on 12/31/2023 12:40:06 AM PST by Libloather
They were testing the New Year’s Eve ball today in Times Square ahead of Sunday’s celebrations, but the real spectacle was happening on the streets.
In a self-declared “heightened threat environment” since Hamas’ murderous assault on Israeli communities near the border with Gaza and the butchering of thousands on October 7, and the punishing military response by the Jewish state, the NYPD is pulling out all the security stops openly and behind the scenes in anticipation of protests and potential violence.
With big NYE specials in the final stages, networks are gearing up for an anticipated unruly night.
Amidst bubbling online chatter and activist promises of a big turnout of pro- Palestinian and anti-Israeli protestors on December 31, New York Mayor Eric Adams insisted on Friday in a Times Square press conference with Chief Jeff Maddrey and other top cops that “there are no specific threats to the city.” Yet, as hundreds of large and small protests for a ceasefire and against Israel have occurred in NYC alone since early October, the former NYPD officer also noted “as we saw last year, after having no specific threats we get a threat, and we are going to be ready.” On the last day of 2022, three NYPD officers were attacked by a 19-year-old man from Maine with a machete over US support for Israel.
A self-described “Shut It Down! For Palestine” protest and march is being put together by various groups for the afternoon of December 31. The event would begin at Columbus Circle, which is at the tip of the NYPD’s planned security perimeter, and the site of CNN‘s NYC HQ. Having seen Macy’s Thanksgiving parade interrupted by anti-Israel protesters, a surge in antisemitism, airport access in NYC, LA and elsewhere blocked and high profile events like the lightening...
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Police should Shoot rioters.
“Police should Shoot rioters”
No cop wants to go to jail for shooting rioting anarchists and I don’t blame them.
Sadly, it is the world we live in, but... it’s probably cyclic.
Send the rioters to Gaza and be under the full control of HAMAS...then we will begin to see more pro-Israel demonstrations that are not like the Pro-Terror-HAMAS demonstrations, namely the Jews do not riot and foment revolution, the Arabs/Muslims are unstable and violent. Shoot ‘em all.
Tear gas, flash bangs, water cannons, rubber bullets. Cripple and maim a few and the rest will run.
Sure. Like they were for all the Auntie Fah rioters.
All they did there was protect them from the civilians there were duty bound to protect instead.
I don’t believe or trust the police in demonstration events any more. They side with the anarchists way too often.
“..They side with the anarchists way too often....”
^THIS^
Bought and paid for.
Always follow the ‘money trail”....always.
More like a million show up at Times Square - I agree with you - let them have at each other. Gotta happen sooner or later.
Something tells me that the NYPD misheard the question and answered it with what they are going to do - We are going to be Ready...Go to Bed.
In other words, the NYPD will do nothing.
You couldn’t pay me to be in NYC or any other city tonight. I’m too wary to attend even a small-town NYE’s celebration. Bad players, including some in our own alphabet agencies are too likely to take advantage and cause chaos somewhere. It could be in a major city such as NYC or even a small sleepy town in the south or mid-west.
I’ll spend the evening at home, be in bed by 9 or 10 and will sleep until the neighbors through the woods start their fireworks extravaganza finale. IIRC, thunderstorms moved in around 12:30 a.m. last year so God’s fireworks took over and everyone else finally gave up.
Anyone who goes there is freakin’ nuts. You have to get there around 6am to get a good spot, you have to wear diapers because if you leave to go to the bathroom you lose your spot, and it’s freezing out right now and for what? To see NYC Mayor Ewic Adams lower the ball and say Happy New Year? Then for some reason they play the Marxist national anthem “Imagine” by the King of the hippies John Lennon.
This year is special because of the fees. BTW, anyone I mention this to says, “That’s nuts.”
New Year’s Eve revelers pay $650 for seat at Applebee’s, $12,500 at Times Square lounge to watch ball drop
That’s a great approach, let them fester, gain strength until we have another 9-11 by immigrant terrorists, homegrowns and airhead sympathizers.
Let it grow and celebrate the death of America.
Phuque that.
Preventing movement or travel via protest or riot is VIOLENCE.
needs to be removed immediately.
We went through this same political riot bullshit in 2020! Use real live rounds and shoot the rioters after they are told to disperse.
"Out in full force" should be modified to include a statement to the effect that, "If you people in the City (residents or visitors) hurt a criminal in trying to defend yourselves, you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."
Wherever there are leftist democrats, you will find chaos, disfunction, pain and corruption.
I want New York City inhabitants to get everything they deserve. /spit
Just one crazy wearing one of those explodovests, is all it will take to change New York City.
I fear several candidates for the job have already come across the border, undetected, and are in place.
Myself? Not a chance I’d be within 10 miles of a major urban enclave tonight.
This is Joe Biden’s and Barak Obama’s America.
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