You should be fine. Everybody else is, with the non-charged beatings, vandalism, theft, and related crime.
[Hill] The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has moved officers out of district attorneys' offices in several boroughs after some prosecutors moved to not file charges against some protesters arrested during recent demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea denied that the two issues were related in comments Friday, according to The New York Times, but the decision to pull the department's officers reportedly came just hours after Manhattan's district attorney announced publicly that demonstrators would not be charged for simple curfew violations amid the protests.
"The justice system shouldn't be the first resort," Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance (D) told the Times in a recent interview. "It should be used only when necessary, especially for low-level offenses, which tend to fall on men and women of color and those economically less resourced." His home address is ......
Other police officials are furious over the news, which was apparently buoyed by similar decisions made by district attorneys in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, according to the Times.
"It is a dereliction of duty to their oath of office," Edward Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, told the Times. "More important than undercutting the work of the N.Y.P.D., it is undercutting public safety."
Shea noted, according to the Times, that reforms made by his agency were happening "maybe not as fast as some people like" but denied claims that his agency was feuding with city prosecutors.
"Are we always in lock step? No," Shea said Friday. "We're human beings and from different agencies."
The commissioner went on to contend that the decision was made to deal with the city's ongoing protests, which have continued for weeks over the death of Floyd, a black man who was unarmed at the time of his arrest.
Video of Floyd's arrest sparked protests in dozens of cities when it was revealed that a white officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, even as the handcuffed Floyd pleaded for medical attention.
NYPD officials did not immediately return a request for further comment from The Hill.
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just hours after Manhattan's district attorney announced publicly that demonstrators would not be charged for simple curfew violations amid the protests.
...So we have a curfew, announced with great fanfare and many threats of foreboding and dread if it is not obeyed, and by the by we're not gonna prosecute any violators.
I give the hell up. I can no longer even try and imagine the mental gymnastics necessary for Our Betters to decree on one hand and wave away on the other.
Mike
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That neck hold was taught to Minneapolis police by Israelis.
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Heh Spike that wasn't a "neck-hold". But if it would help you I learned combat choke outs from my Okinawan Sensei. Pretty sure he wasn't Jewish. Would happy to show you.
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance, the gift that keeps killing.
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everyone knows 'men and women of color' can't be expected to follow the rules
I mean that's practically one of the left's commandments by now.
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/\ Need proof? Drive I-285 around Atlanta. Westbound Montgomery - Birmingham sector, most effective evidence. Mind the left lane and crotch-rockets, that is if you wish to live.
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The police need to pull their presence from all state buildings that push this nonsense. Then announce they will not respond to calls to neighborhoods where the politicians live.
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DA declined to charge rioters then oddly the same folks were arrested the following night for rioting but unfortunately their legs were broken during arrest.
[Washington Examiner] A leading Democratic lawmaker asked the CIA for answers on an undisclosed advisory board Secretary of State Mike Pompeo organized during his time as head of the spy agency.
Rep. Stephen Lynch, the head of the oversight panel's national security subcommittee, expressed concern that the activities of the board may have been inappropriate and that its members were more likely to be wealthy, influential individuals.
"To date, the CIA has refused to identify the individuals selected by Mr. Pompeo to serve on the External Advisory Board during his tenure, as well as the role of his wife, Susan Pompeo, a private citizen, in organizing these events," the Massachusetts Democrat wrote in the letter. "It is imperative that the CIA remains independent of undue influence from partisan political interests." Then he exploded in a partisan ball of flame
The concern is that Pompeo, a former Republican congressman from Kansas who served as CIA director from January 2017 to April 2018, may have been using the board to curry favor with influential businessmen and politicians.
Former CIA officials and Deep State plank holders told Politico that the board was treated to "lavish" dinners and classified briefings. Officials also divulged names of members of the board,
...is that anything like letting slip the identity of Valerie Plame?
which included billionaire entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, a top executive at global advertising agency McCann Worldgroup, a billionaire representative for the Hyatt hotel chain, former Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who is now vice chairman of investment bank Moelis & Company, and William Barr, who at the time served on the board of directors of Time Warner and is now the attorney general.
The CIA declined to comment to the Washington Examiner on the letter but did touch on the advisory board.
"CIA’s External Advisory Board is always a cross-section of industry experts and former senior government leaders who provide counsel on a wide variety of issues," CIA spokesman Timothy Barrett said. "In addition to the countless hours members regularly volunteer to share their expertise, the formal meetings provide a forum for in-depth conversations and lively debate on solutions. To suggest those meetings are some lavish vacation would be a misrepresentation."
A State Department spokeswoman, Morgan Ortagus, said in a statement that "while Secretary Pompeo was Director of the CIA, he followed all agency protocols related to the External Advisory Board. Far from being lavish events, meetings were grueling and focused on critical challenges for the Agency and held in the director’s conference room. Meeting agendas and logistics were solely prepared by Agency leadership. Director Hayden established the board and it was a practice of CIA Directors from both political parties to continue the board. For Congressman Lynch to insinuate wrongdoing five months before an election is purely partisan politics on full display."
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I believe most large companies have offices or individuals charged with liaison and coordination with government entities such as the CIA. Bringing them together for briefings, a meal, some meet & greet makes sense to me.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
