Did you read my comment there lol. I posted there one time calling out some guy for supporting an antisemite.

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They did the same thing in Boston during George Floyd protests. Trapped everyone in the common, shut down all public transport, then told everyone to leave but pepper sprayed us when we tried. Everyone was peaceful and they still assaulted us violently.

Teachers have strict curricula and regulations on behavior, in a way I don't think could be reasonably argued the NYPD has a comparable system of accountability. I don't think anyone would seriously argue that what teachers need is less stability and less bargaining power.

When will police be held accountable and pay for their legal fees. Defund the police can just be pay your own damn bills and stop freeloading off of taxpayers. And also, do your damn job without abusing power for fucks sake.

>The kettling strategy was broadly defended at the time by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police commissioner, Dermot F. Shea, who said it was needed because protesters were defying curfews and looters had ransacked parts of Manhattan, though the demonstrations had been largely peaceful.
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>The shocking scenes of looting, scuffles between the police and protesters and destruction of police cars led then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mr. DeBlasio to announce on June 1 that they would deploy twice as many police officers and impose a curfew.
“There comes a point where enough is enough,” Mr. de Blasio said.

Remember this the next someone says De Blasio was progressive. He was a jackass posing as a progressive and contributed to the situation that led to the protests escalating to riots.

Except we have examples of people being charged by the DA’s office with felony assault for shoves.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/17/us/new-york-anti-asian-attack/index.html

How that shakes out in court might be different. But clearly a shove with intent has cause a charge of assault.

NYC: we don’t enforce our laws but we will solve it by writing more laws!

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It got Adams elected... It swung NYC congressional districts Red. Fuck the NYPD.

You say that, but then the city turned around and elected a cop as mayor a year later, so clearly the residents of this city don’t give enough of a fuck to change things.

>nyone on the force should be able to be fired for any reason whatsoever.

Agreed we should do this to all public unions including teachers

Conservatives obtusely conflating peaceful protests and looting is such a fundamental part of their playbook these days it’s laughable. Anyone with half a working brain cell can see right through it - but unfortunately it’s an effective tactic when courting their MAGA cult of idiots to get further in lockstep against progressives.

Yea joke aside, Im sure its intense.

And how is that so far from what they’re doing now? Only difference is how fast it happens and how much you actually see it happening.

>A slap to the face meets the criteria if you say it caused you substantial pain.

Not in the NY case law. People v. Chiddick, 8 NY3d 445 (2007):

>"petty slaps, shoves, kicks and the like delivered out of hostility, meanness and similar motives" constitute only harassment and not assault

There needs to be a clear intent on the defendant to inflict significant pain, otherwise it won't be an assault ("Motive is relevant because an offender more interested in displaying hostility than in inflicting pain will often not inflict much of it.")

So say, if a victim is retrained physically (can't run away), while the attacker slaps the victim repeatedly with the intent of causing pain, sure, that could probably be a misdemeanor assault.

For simple slaps to rise to the level of assault, I don't see that merely happening in the heat of a moment. Anyone who actually intents to cause pain could just as easily close a fist and throw a punch instead of a slap.

Maybe borderline, a "double ear clap" could arguably be assault, but that's not a regular slap.

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Alternate law enforcement would have to be a part of it for sure. You'd have to start with a separately run and managed force that grows over time.

NYPD, continuous milking of our tax dollars.

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The nytimes has excellent reporting on all the police violence during the protests and they have the receipts. Tons of videos of cops literally assaulting protestors who aren’t a breaking any laws, some are literally doing nothing just standing there. It was horrendous.

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Physical Injury is defined by the state as “impairment of physical condition or substantial pain.” A slap to the face meets the criteria if you say it caused you substantial pain.