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About damn time.

Damn who has 91 friends? 😢

I worked many years with White transplants in Bushwick and Bed Stuy. The type that are all about getting into social heaven, being perceived as accepting. They never had an answer when asked about gentrification. Just the most entitled people.

Real life experience says otherwise. NYC is very much segregated esp for those who grew up here. Perhaps for ppl who move here in adulthood it’s a different experience

The NYPD got to satisfy their blood lust and spend the money of actual nyc residents. Win win for them.

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Neither of them have a real possibility of being instated into practice with how little the government wants the function of the police to change. But the possibility of settlements coming from their pension fund would NEVER happen, it would be tied up in court for the next few centuries even if it would instantaneously SHATTER their blue wall of silence.

It certainly was intentional, that was an easy and common transformation of his name at the time

No I’m not. It’s the City’s liability, the City’s funds, and the City’s decision to settle. If the cops aren’t a party, they have no authority or responsibility in the matter.

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And why would they have any direction in the defense if they don’t have any liability?

The taxpayers pay for it in NYC.

> Long-standing inner-city majority Black, Asian and Latino neighborhoods are becoming whiter, as the reverse occurred in traditionally white “semi-suburban” areas in outer boroughs.

no duh! It’s called gentrification. Now how many of those new neighbors speak to the people in the community? Won’t even make eye contact with you…

> The study, published by the Washington Post, found that for every 91 white friends a white American has, they have only one black friend, one Asian friend, one Latino friend, one mixed-race friend, and three friends of unknown race. Comparatively, the average black American has 8 white friends for every 83 black friends. - 75% of White People Can’t Even Use the ‘I’m Not Racist, I Have a Black Friend’ Defense

They make much more than that after a few years.

Who do you think gets called in to bust up unions and violently suppress workers? It's cops. I can promise you that the SBA is not helping workers rights in any way shape or form.

no way. that’s just another excuse to increase their budget. it’s time to make these settlements come out of their pension fund.

Since tax payers are footing the bill, they should just remove the total amount from every police person's paycheck that was responsible for the assaults.

>Mayor Krotch

Whether or not this was intentional, bravo.

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This happened in cities across America. Police intentionally took on the peaceful protestors because (1) they're less likely to fight back; (2) allowing the looting to continue helps spread fear and support for police; and (3) arresting peaceful protestors helps to conflate rioting and protesting.

In 1987, I was a junior at Newtown High School in Elmhurst, Queens. Mayor Krotch came to our school to give us a plaque for being the most ethnically diverse school in Queens, which had to have meant that we were the most ethnically diverse school in the whole goddamn country. To his credit, he was willing to answer some questions from our student journalist body. One student asked why our school was so crowded, and he responded like a politician would, saying "Well, everybody wants to go to Newtown, don't you want to go to Newtown"? We booed him for giving a bullshit politician answer. I feel it is part of my proud heritage as a New Yorker that I got to personally boo the mayor when I wasn't even old enough to vote for him yet.

I understand the context of your comment but it’s kind of nutty to suggest de Blasio was only “posing as a progressive”

Not Surprised

They can self-represent or hire private outside counsel if they want. They just usually don’t, because their internal lawyers don’t usually handle these sorts of cases, and private outside counsel is expensive while the Law Department is free.