Nolte: Democrat-Run New York City to Pay $13M to 1,380 Rioters
An easy way to doom your city is to pay 1,380 rioters $9,950 each, which is precisely what Democrat-run New York City is doing.
Before we go any further, police officers can and do go too far. I am not a knee-jerk “Back the Blue” guy. Never have been. When cops go too far, there should be accountability. This insane payoff has nothing to do with accountability. New York Democrats are settling a class-action suit. That is pure madness and a perfect way to ensure rioters riot while police officers stand by and do nothing, knowing the city will hang them out to dry at every opportunity.
Protesters in Brooklyn, New York, jump on an NYPD police SUV during a demonstration against the killing of George Floyd (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images).
If 1,380 rioters believe their civil rights were violated during the George Floyd 1619 Riots, then each one should be required to file an individual lawsuit and make their case. To pay off 1,380 indiscriminately is insane, a way to tell rioters that rioting pays—and pays well…
Mayor Bill de Blasio instituted a curfew, the city’s first in 75 years. As the looting waned, police officers dispersed or arrested people who were marching outside the prescribed hours. According to the New York State attorney general’s office, the police made just over 2,000 protest-related arrests between May 28 and June 7, 2020.
New York Times journalists covering the protests saw officers repeatedly charge at protesters out after curfew with little apparent provocation, shoving people onto sidewalks and striking them with batons.
Some of the people who stand to receive payments under the class-action settlement were arrested. Others were not taken into custody but, the suit asserted, were subject to police conduct meant to impede and deter their ability to exercise First Amendment rights.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/21/nolte-democrat-run-new-york-city-pay-13m-1380-rioters/
NYC will distribute flyers at US-Mexico border telling newly arrived migrants to ‘consider another city‘
hypocritical bastards
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has told migrants there is ‘no more room in the city’ as officials start to evict asylum seekers out of shelters despite more buses arriving from southern border.
The city will distribute flyers at the US-Mexico border telling newly arrived migrants to ‘consider another city’ and limit shelter stays for adult asylum seekers to 60 days as the city’s Democratic mayor says it is straining to house them.
The flyers would seek to ‘combat misinformation at the border’ and that the city would help migrants find other housing and ‘take the next step in their journey,’ the office of Mayor Eric Adams said in an announcement on Wednesday.
New York is bound by a decades-old consent decree in a class-action lawsuit to provide shelter for those without homes.
As more migrants have arrived, Adams, who has called the immigration crisis a ‘disaster’, has tried a range of approaches to housing them, from tents to relocating them to other parts of the state.
Adams declared a state of emergency in October 2022 and has called on President Joe Biden, a fellow Democrat, to provide more resources and to help migrants get work permits.
New York City says that it has provided services to 90,000 migrants since last spring and that nearly 55,000 remain in its care.
Thousands of those migrants arrived on buses sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican who has tried to shift the burden of receiving them to Democratic strongholds.
Two groups advocating for New York City’s homeless population – the Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless – said in a joint statement they were reviewing the legality of the new 60-day shelter limit.
‘This new policy raises many questions and concerns that the City has yet to address. It is also unclear whether State officials have provided any input on what the City proposes to implement.’
They added that the state has a legal obligation to ‘ensure that people who lack shelter are safe and secure, and protected from exposure to the elements.’
The new flyer that New York City plans to circulate at the border highlights the high cost of housing, food and other necessities that migrants will encounter if they travel to the U.S. financial center.
Please consider another city as you make your decision about where to settle in the U.S.,’ it reads in English and Spanish.
h/t Coastie Patriot