From 18 U.S.C. §§ 1201: Kidnapping
(a)Whoever unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds for ransom or reward or otherwise any person, except in the case of a minor by the parent thereof –
We have a general understanding of the definition of kidnapping.
That word has now entered the newspeak dictionary to mean “law enforcement effecting the legal arrest of a suspect in a way that minimizes the danger to the officers.”
This is the headline from the New York Post:
Teen protester busted by NYPD, charged with criminal mischief
The teen was wanted for damaging police cameras around City Hall Park on June 30, the NYPD said.
She was arrested as she walked with a group through Kips Bay a little before 6 p.m., tailed by a contingent of marked NYPD vehicles and uniformed cops.
She was later charged with criminal mischief for writing on the cameras at City Hall Park, sources said.
She was also hit with several counts of graffiti and criminal mischief as well as other charges in four separate incidents between June 19 and July 6, including for allegedly scribbling inside The Oculus and on an F-train at 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue and for writing on an Upper East Side building and a Park Avenue sidewalk.
The teen was arrested by the NYPD Warrant Squad, which means there was a warrant issued for her arrest.
This is the video of that arrest.
Social media soon exploded with people calling it “kidnapping.”
This is the same accusation leveled against the arrest of agitators in Portland by federal LEOs.
There is a reason the police, both federal and local, have taken to this tactic.
It works and it’s safer for officers.
I’ve posted these Tweets before but I want to discuss them again.
This is what happens when uniformed officers try to arrest a suspect in the middle of a crowd. Other people rush in and hinder the arrest. The zaftig protesters from Wisconsin got arrested for laying hands on an officer arresting another suspect.
In the latter video, other people outnumber the officer and stop the arrest from happening. They call that “dearresting.”
Remember last year there was the problem where uniformed NYPD officers had crowds surround them and throw water bottles and dump buckets of water on them when they were trying to do their duties.
So the warrant squad, like federal LEOs, use unmarked vehicles to get close to suspects without alerting a crowd to their presence. Then they can nab and arrest the suspect and be out of there before an unruly mob forms to outnumber and “dearrest” the suspect.
However, police said this squad uses unmarked vehicles to find wanted suspects.
Intelligence and counter terrorism expert Brian Boyd said he thinks it was an acceptable police tactic.
“It’s legitimate. When they went up and made the arrest, they identified themselves as police officers,” he said. “A warrant squad is there to find and catch criminals or people who are wanted for committing crimes. And the only way you can do it sometimes, in a large group like that, is to do it undercover.”
Boyd added, “They have to be read their Miranda rights ’cause that’s the requirements. They’re put into a vehicle. The police car was unmarked because it’s safer for the person involved, it’s safer for the police.”
The response on Twitter proves exactly why the police need this tactic.
As it was, those officers were attacked for doing their job.
In his unending desire to undermine the NYPD, Mayor Bill de Blasio said:
“A lot of us have been watching in pain what’s going on in Portland, Oregon,” he said. “Anything that even slightly suggests that is, to me, troubling, and it’s the kind of thing we don’t want to see in this city.
“I think it was the wrong time and the wrong place to effectuate that arrest,” he added.
I suspect that next will come a ban on this type of tactic.
That will only put police at more risk when trying to arrest suspects, perhaps to the point where they can’t execute a warrant.
The police should not have to walk a gauntlet of assault to make an arrest.
That is why the Left has rebranded this “kidnapping.” They want to hinder the ability of law enforcement to arrest people.
They will make it easier for criminals to get away while turning popular opinion against the police.
That is the ultimate goal of newspeak, to destroy the existing good in society by destroying the language.
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