Posted on 10/16/2020 5:41:04 PM PDT by karpov
As protests go, this one was pretty run-of-the-mill: maybe 300 bicycle food-delivery guys crowding loudly into City Hall Park Thursday to demand more police protection. They say their bikes are being stolen, often at gunpoint, and the NYPD isn’t doing much about it.
The claim has a familiar ring to it. There’s a worrisome fraying of Gotham’s social fabric underway, and blame lies squarely with Bill de Blasio’s kinder, gentler approach to public safety.
Sure, the coronavirus, a deteriorating economy and New York’s steadily worsening gun-violence command a lot of attention. At least nine people were shot, one fatally, between Tuesday and late Thursday, with the weekend looming. And that’s not really news any longer, is it?
So where do swiped bikes register compared to bloody sidewalks? Right?
But if you need your bike to earn your living, meager as it may be, losing it to a pistol-waving thug is a very big deal indeed.
And when the NYPD’s response seems to be episodic at best — and often, it is said, nonexistent — well, who can blame the delivery guys for taking their beef to City Hall Park?
It’s a wonder the place ain’t packed.
Certainly the folks who run high-end retail in SoHo have cause to protest what’s euphemistically called shoplifting these days. Slow-motion looting is more like it — folks wandering about the stores stuffing items worth thousands into duffel bags, then calmly strolling through the front door to waiting luxury automobiles, rarely a cop in sight.
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“Go soft”...except on the maskless and Orthodox Jews.
Thy voted for this.
If they do not completely change their world view and give up the self righteousness that is the core of identity politics and the US Democratic Party, Imhave no sympathy..
This is his final term. He doesn’t give a chit.
But, but...New York is going to come back stronger than ever after this>>>YEAH RIGHT!!!!
I would wager the bicycle riders are mostly if not all proud little democrats, Suck it Up, dems reparations.
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I seem to remember some years back the left showing pictures of China and Europe with many bike riders.
Telling us how much more healthy this is, better for your budget, better for the environment.
I’d say you probably are right..
You’re right. I know a lot of NY’ers and many are libs or even hard-core leftists. They complain about many things, but simply can’t lose their world-view. They cling to it like a life-raft. They best I can come up with is that they permanently live in a state of deep cognitive dissonance.
They should be honored to be the first white people to pay reparations—you can’t get more virtuous than that!
Elect a Commie get commie results.
They have found a way to destroy cities and get away with it while filling their pockets in broad daylight in front of everyone
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