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2020-06-29 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Fresh signs of NYC spiraling out of control
[NYPOST] "Complete lawlessness," one cop termed the incident in Harlem in the early hours Sunday — and it’s fast becoming an apt description of much of the city.Officers responded to an electronic ShotSpotter alert just before 4 a.m., and discovered a block party still raging. Worse, the crowd attacked the police, with members screaming obscenities as they hurled bottles and other debris at the cruisers.

The NYPD showed tremendous restraint, perhaps too much — retreating vans down Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and avoiding arrests or injuries as it dispersed the mob over several hours. How many innocents were at risk in the interim? And how are police to reverse the surge in shootings when they meet this kind of reception?

Eleven New Yorkers were shot across 12 hours that night, with several of the victims refusing to cooperate in any investigation. And that doesn’t include the couple bumped off with an AR-15-style rifle Saturday afternoon on an East New York stoop.

That’s over 80 people shot in a week, with at least six fatalities.

Other signs of disorder are more mundane, like the assaults on the barricades that close off roads under Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
’s "open streets" effort. Drivers blowing through those barriers are plainly putting innocents at risk while showing utter contempt for the law.

As are the people shooting off fireworks at all hours of the night, with cops evidently ordered not to interfere.

Indeed, "don’t interfere" seems the slogan for every city authority these days. Police took troubled vagrant Matthew Mishefski to Mt. Sinai Hospital on Saturday . . . after he started running around naked in Washington Square Park and got into a fight with two other men.

But he’d been camped out in the fenced-off fountain for a month, amassing a living-room worth of furniture. Is it really a coincidence that he was finally hauled in only after he made the front page of The Post? Where were ThriveNYC and all the other city mental-health programs all those weeks?

This is a guy who answers only when addressed as "Jesus Christ Lord Saviour," yet the system fails to protect him or the public with mandatory treatment. Indeed, he was discharged Sunday morning, returned to the park, stripped again and got hauled back to Mt. Sinai. He may be out again by the time you read this.
Posted by Fred 2020-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 discovered a block party still raging

It's vitamin D deficiency that causes high rates of CV19 in African-Americans.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-29 02:45||   2020-06-29 02:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Throw in a dash of sickle cell anemia, and, vóilà, more blatant & obvious "systemic racism". /sarc
Posted by Clem 2020-06-29 05:57||   2020-06-29 05:57|| Front Page Top

#3 It has long been my understanding that the majority of Americans are well below levels considered necessary for optimal health. Seems our fast food world lacks many things our bodies need. I suspect long term dietary imbalances are majorly contributing to the behavior and health issues of the day.
Posted by Dale 2020-06-29 07:04||   2020-06-29 07:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Type 2 diabetes would virtually disappear (and the drugs to deal with it) if people simply changed their diet.
Posted by Clem 2020-06-29 07:12||   2020-06-29 07:12|| Front Page Top

#5 NYC shootings more than doubled last week compared to same period last year
Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-29 07:54||   2020-06-29 07:54|| Front Page Top

#6 NYPD cops responding to shots fired met with crowd throwing bottles, debris
Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-29 07:55||   2020-06-29 07:55|| Front Page Top

#7 AAAAND we should care, WHY in TEXAS??
Posted by ranture 2020-06-29 09:53||   2020-06-29 09:53|| Front Page Top

#8 You get what you voted for (or failed to show up at the polls).
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-29 10:54||   2020-06-29 10:54|| Front Page Top

#9 The sump that is NYC is the petri dish of so many corrosive problems for the rest of us, I am increasingly calibrating my concerns for them in millimicro giveashits .
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-06-29 12:17||   2020-06-29 12:17|| Front Page Top

#10 AAAAND we should care, WHY in TEXAS??

Because we have Houston, Austin and soon, Dallas and not enough hanging trees.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-29 17:29||   2020-06-29 17:29|| Front Page Top

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