This video has made its way around the internet, of an NYPD officer hulking out against some people for violating social distancing.
IS THIS #NYPD BRUTALITY OR NOT? We report, you decide. This happened on Ave D and 9th St, in the #LowerEastSide of #Manhattan on Saturday – @NYCMayor @NYPDnews pic.twitter.com/0pTDTat17S
— NYScanner (@nyscanner) May 3, 2020
From the New York Daily News:
SEE IT: NYPD cop making arrest for social distancing violation punches and takes down bystander
An NYPD cop making an arrest in the East Village for a social distancing violation threatened a bystander with a Taser and then punched him to the ground, startling video shows.
The video, which has spread quickly on social media, shows officers making an arrest on 9th St. and Avenue D just after 5:30 p.m. Saturday when one cop gets up, draws his Taser and approaches a bystander while yelling, “Move the f–k back right now… Don’t flex.”
The mayhem began when cops approached a group not following social distancing mandates aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus.
The officer found marijuana in the group, which is the only reason why this isn’t a bigger deal than it is.
I was talking to a buddy about this and he was reminded of this scene from the movie V for Vendetta:
The curve has flattened across most of America.
The weather is getting nicer and people are tired of being locked inside for a month.
People want life to return to normal, or at least some sort of mostly normal.
Politicians drunk on emergency power and moving the goalposts at a running clip are dropping the boot harder each day.
Eventually, someone is going to do something dumb, like a cop shooting and killing some dad for playing catch with his kids in a park.
I think that is when shit will break loose and anti-lockdown protests will turn into anti-lockdown riots.
We’re not at the breaking point yet, but harassing people with drones, driving people from public places in helicopters, and beating up citizens for standing to close to each other is a very bad path for us to be on.
On this one I am going with the cop. Soon-To-Be-Bystander came at the cop and he does not have to wait to be hit to initiate a take down.
Remember, fuck with the cops at a distance and all the verbal you want. Squaring off and going for a chest bump? Dumb move.
I don’t disagree. My point is that it started over the cops were enforcing social distancing. When we reach the point were a couple of people talking on a street, standing less than 6 feet apart is reason for the cops to roust you like you’re a criminal, that is opening the door to something bad happening.
@Miguel, I don’t agree with your stance on this. If this was you or I, the cops words would have been “fighting words” and the fact that the bystander stepped up and invaded our personal space would not justify the use of violence. (The take down is violence.)
There was no reason for the cop to leave the arrest to confront the bystander. He ordered the bystander to back up, the bystander did.
I’ve noticed that in a number of these cases, the cops “i feel threatened” zone is as big as it needs to be for them to justify their actions.
The cop was offended that bystander was yelling at them for the arrest.
Of course the headline implies the arrest was for social distancing. I don’t believe that for a moment. There are just too many plain clothes and uniformed cops at the arrest of one person for it to just be a social distancing offense. More than likely it was a warrant being served.
Regardless, the video is troubling.
You are implying cops work under the same set of rules as we do which they do not.
I am not saying it is right or wrong, but we must deal with the reality of things: You are told 5 times to step back (legal order) and then get stupid by moving forward and square off? Expect to taste the pavement. Say & loudly protest the same shit 2 or 3 steps away and you are not going to degust NY sidewalk.
The cop was right in this case. The body language of the guy he took down was clearly aggressive. He was looking for a fight and he found one.
I notice the “Social Distance” cops are practicing proper precautions regarding wearing masks to protect their chins, at least until they realize they might be on video.
Riots do not matter when you give orders to machine gun down protestors. It also helps that the murdering of United States citizens that oppose you cause you to spontaneously orgasm. Or at least use as pornographic material to masturbate to. That’s a running hypothesis I have: the Democrats murdering American citizens for opposing the government is porn to them. Especially in the media. Oh sure, that may piss off the citizens but at this point these Democratic governors would LOVE to enact orders to shoot to kill on sight people that protest and ignore there dictas. After all in their minds protesters equal trump voters And in their mind all Trump voters should be exterminated.
And let’s say a state issues a shoot to kill order and people start getting killed and the citizenry breaks out in massive riots. Which the Democratic governor suppresses with automatic weapons fire. They will not be forced out of office because the Democrats are a hive mind and if President Trump intervenes he’ll be attacked for interfering with a state matter. The media and the Democratic Party and media will view Trump trying to stop a governor murdering their own citizens worse than the governor murdering their own citizens for protesting their decisions. And you know what the really sad thing is? Every court including the supreme court at this point because I have no faith in them anymore will say it is with in the states rights to murder citizens that oppose the orders that they dictate.
This situation will end up with bloodshed. Of that I have no doubt. The only question is where, and how much?
However, the fear I have is that those in power, already drunk on their own self importance, will take any kind of violence as proof their emergency authority must be extended.
Unfortunately, the anger will not be directed at the Mayors/Governors, it will end up with violence against the cops. And, therein lies the real problem.
Extend their power? Yep. Remember Hurricane Dorian from last September? You know, the Hurricane that didn’t hit Florida? The state of Florida is still under a state of emergency from that. The Governor just renewed the order last week.
https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/orders/2020/EO_20-106.pdf
Didn’t all the govt. power grabs in V start with a virus?
(back story/root cause)
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Cop was completely out of line here.