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NYC Burger King hit with $15M suit, accused of allowing ‘open air drug bazaar’ run by ‘professional’ dealers
New York Post ^ | March 17, 2024 | Matthew Sedacca and Social Links for Kathianne Boniello

Posted on 03/17/2024 12:15:30 PM PDT by grundle

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To: grundle

Doesnt NYC have a main library? Thats where some of ours set up shop...

...yknow, 3 or 4 blocks from the cop shop.

No way anyone would ever find them there.


21 posted on 03/17/2024 12:49:17 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Burger King 👑

He’s king, after all......


22 posted on 03/17/2024 12:55:34 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: grundle

RE: not Burger King’s job....
True.
Also:
The Supreme Court of the United States explained that it is a “fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.”
The U.S. Supreme Court has also ruled that police have no specific obligation to protect. In its 1989 decision in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services.

Blazing Saddles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__n5Bgxx-68


23 posted on 03/17/2024 1:01:16 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: grundle

It’s time to build a wall around Manhattan to contain the troublemakers.


24 posted on 03/17/2024 1:02:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: grundle

The New York War on businesses is escalating.


25 posted on 03/17/2024 1:10:59 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Make orwell fiction again)
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To: Rummyfan

“would you like some crack with those fries?”


26 posted on 03/17/2024 1:18:48 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It’s mostly cognative dissonance. Those voters never for one second connect their voting with things like this.


27 posted on 03/17/2024 1:45:15 PM PDT by MachIV
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To: Dutch Boy

Well then I guess if any drug deal happens on a street or sidewalk
In front of a business. Can that business sue the city for 15 mill$$


28 posted on 03/17/2024 2:30:20 PM PDT by midwest_hiker
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To: Dutch Boy

Why didn’t these upstanding citizens call the police, if they
were so upset?

Drop kick this case back several decades and move on.


29 posted on 03/17/2024 2:40:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: farmguy; GOPJ; DoughtyOne
But governor hochul says normal business people need not worry about being maliciously sued by new york...

This time it was Manhattan instead of the state AG, but it seems likely that Letitia's legal theft from Trump made Manhattan jealous.

30 posted on 03/17/2024 3:07:55 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: grundle

Why is this news? How does this come as a surprise to anyone? Thanks to the biden administration, the drug cartels openly operate at or near the USA border smuggling both drugs and/or people. Makes perfect sense that the end-user dealers would also operate out of or near a USA facility since the police have been recalled due to fkd NYC liberal programs. Theres no cops to protect anyone and who gaf since everyone is stoned off their asses anyway, business owners included. All thanks to woke liberal left democrat policies. I say gtfo while you can or embrace the suck! Rant /off.


31 posted on 03/17/2024 3:17:10 PM PDT by know.your.why (<>)
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To: grundle

This what they mean by “have it your way”? LOL.


32 posted on 03/17/2024 3:24:50 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: grundle

It is their job to roust them out of their premises and keep them from hanging around. Wouldn’t be surprised if they’re getting a user fee from the dealers, which does make it Burger King’s fault. But what are the damages? If you don’t want to go to Burger King, there are other dealer-free establishments elsewhere. Manhattan is a culinary playground. Or at least it used to be back when I worked there.


33 posted on 03/17/2024 3:28:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Yeah, this doesn’t even make sense.

It opens a can of worms the size of New York state.


34 posted on 03/17/2024 3:39:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Eleutheria5
“We’ve reached out to every direction we can and the only ones that seem to be responsive and listening are the cops,” said Kaufman, 69, a married filmmaker who raised his two kids in FiDi. “Cops are doing everything they can to get rid of these people, but they’re handcuffed. It’s this idiotic bail reform. They have arrested a couple of people, but they are back within 24 hours.”

The cops can't control the dealers according to this. So BK tells them "begone" and they ignore it, what then?

35 posted on 03/17/2024 3:46:09 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Can’t be they’re slogging burgers and fries at profit in that environment. I think they’re getting a cut. And that makes them liable.


36 posted on 03/17/2024 4:40:56 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Atlas Shrugged...we’re all watching in real time the events that lead up to businesses abandoning any city that isn’t “good business.” Corporate America will take their money and go home. The question that follows is: then what? Then what happens to American cities when all the jobs leave? We’ll soon find out-


37 posted on 03/17/2024 5:32:32 PM PDT by Paco
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To: Paco
Then what happens to American cities when all the jobs leave?

Blackrock buys up all the real estate for pennies on the dollar.

38 posted on 03/17/2024 5:34:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: grundle

So, is the plaintiff saying that BK should have engaged in vigilatisms to enforce the laws that NYC has declined to enforce?


39 posted on 03/17/2024 6:19:07 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: DoughtyOne

That can was opened when they sued gun manufacturers for shootings.


40 posted on 03/17/2024 6:21:34 PM PDT by cableguymn
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