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-War on Police-
NYPD Chief of Department and three other cops are beaten and seriously injured by protesters wielding sticks on Brooklyn Bridge - and Bill de Blasio remains silent
2020-07-16
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • At least four officers - including the city’s highest ranking uniformed cop, Chief of Department Terence Monahan - were hurt and 37 were arrested

  • In surveillance footage a protester is seen swinging a long object down at the heads of a group of officers from a walkway as they attempt to arrest someone

  • Photos of the aftermath showed a lieutenant with a bloodied face, a detective holding a bandage to his head, and an officer helping another to dress a wound

  • Monahan meanwhile, who is seen the video dressed in a white shirt, also suffered a head wound and fractured his finger in the scuffle

  • The Chief of Department was one of several NYPD officials lauded last month for taking a knee with demonstrators in the city on June 1

  • He and the other injured officers were marching with a pro-police group led by local clergy when they were met on the bridge by anti-police activists

  • In a longer clip of the clash obtained by DailyMail.com, an all-out brawl is seen erupting between a dozen protesters and group of NYPD bike patrol officers

  • Mayor Bill de Blasio, who earlier this month slashed NYPD funding by $1Bn, has yet to speak about the incident, despite being active on social media
Posted by:Skidmark

#11  And until another Rudy Guliani comes along, who in heaven's name would want to be a NYPD officer right now?

But, no danger to Wilhelm. The people of NYC will re-elect him with glee and vigor.
Posted by: Clem   2020-07-16 22:46  

#10  The entire NYPD needs to go on strike. Fuck the politicians and fuck the people that support them at this point.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-07-16 22:37  

#9  If the police cannot or aren’t allowed to defend themselves then perform an orderly retreat and leave the city to the mob. Don’t be a martyr for the likes to the traitor deBlasio. Put the monkey on his back, a la Atlas Shrugged.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-07-16 15:48  

#8  (BTW -- bending over really got you far with the mob, didn't it?)

"Cardinal Tetzel assured me these indulgences would get me into Heaven! Wha' hoppen?!."
Posted by: charger   2020-07-16 12:51  

#7  Bicycle yellow shirts look like they need some CQB training.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-07-16 11:43  

#6  BLM looks at taking a knee not as solidarity but as surrender. This unity march or whatever it was supposed to be was not in keeping with their status as surrendered combatants, so BLM explained it to them.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2020-07-16 11:09  

#5  ^Rioters better organized than the police - what would've TeddyRoosevelt said?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-07-16 08:26  

#4  Looks like the 'sticks' were delivered to a select few expressly for the purpose right before the incidents.

Probably didn't want to upset the other 'protesters' with their intended violence earlier in the march.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-07-16 08:21  

#3  Maybe the cops need to go Dirty Harry on Wilhelm.
Posted by: Phineter Turkeyneck6202   2020-07-16 07:42  

#2  Cops will be charged with damaging the guys’ sticks...
Posted by: Glenmore    2020-07-16 02:27  

#1  Swinging a weapon is deadly force. Meet it appropriately.

(BTW -- bending over really got you far with the mob, didn't it?)
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-07-16 00:45  

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