Police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck. Lawlessness, homelessness and hopelessness threaten during the day to transform this city into an open-air room, with May and shootings reigning at night. However, there is something we can do to stop what seems to be an inexplicable slide into the abyss.
New Yorkers must work together and fight madness, as must the good citizens of the city of Chicago. They are crazy as hell about the chaos perpetrated by the politicians invading the streets, and they refuse to lie back and take it.
It’s been scary. On Monday night, sick children and their families, more than 30 groups in total, were fighting in fear at a Ronald McDonald home in Chicago when looters slammed the front door as they tried to enter.
But on Tuesday, residents of Windy City’s South Side neighborhood of Englewood decided they had enough. In that neighborhood, a black man on Sunday apparently initiated a gunfight with police, causing unrest and widespread looting. But good people came together to drive out Protestants of Black Lives Matter and others who intend to leave police as helpless as bad kids and ordinary people.
“If you are not from Englewood, get the f – – k out of here,” local resident Darryl Smith told Protestants.
‘You do not come out when a child is shot. “You’ll come out if it has anything to do with the f – – king’s police,” he shouted, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. He demanded that marchers take their beef to authorities and leave everyone else alone.
But then, as Protestants made their way to a police station, the population shot them back against the crowd. This caused marchers to disperse, as one district fought back against the agitators from outside, believing that things would destroy everyone.
Good for her.
These little heroics prove that not every person living in a neighborhood populated mainly by minorities wants to burn it. So when Chicago BLM organizer Ariel Atkins apologized for weekend looting as “repair,” a calmer but even more engaging voice responded, “Hell, no.”
The truth is that most people just want the same things: Jobs. Security. Respect. Most people also know that the vast majority of police officers do not kill themselves. And for those who are not in the top 1 percent of the earners of this country, policemen are the only ones standing between them and problems.
As a result of the brutal assassination of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police, the mayors of Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as leaders of other cities, announced plans to defuse the police. In Gotham, the city council, with the full support of Mayor de Blasio, has cut more than $ 1 billion or deducted from the annual budget of nearly $ 6 billion of the police. Hizzoner’s wife, Chirlane McCray, whom he called his closest adviser, saw a police-free Big Apple as’ like a nirvana, a utopia. . . ”
It comes as little surprise that an important group of people, for the most part, disagree: black people.
In a Gallup poll released Aug. 5, black Americans were asked if they wanted the police to spend more time, the same amount of time or less time as they currently do in their areas. A clear majority – 61 percent – said they want the police presence to remain the same as it is now.
Another 20 percent want police to spend more time in their neighborhoods. Just 19 percent want to see less. The definition of nirvana seems to change with one’s bank accounts and status.
For everyone, the marginalization and intimidation of police has a sudden and dramatic effect. After decades of near peace, New York is suffering a terrible spike in shooting sports.
Last weekend, the city killed 1,000 victims. A week earlier, the number of shooting incidents across the city had dropped to a total of 2019 – by another five months a year. On top of all that, homeless vagrants have been dumped in hotels on the Upper West Side and Chelsea in an attempt to protect streets from COVID-19, forcing those living within two weeks to engage in public urination , masturbation and drug use, plus the presence of convicted pedophiles near places where children play.
It was nice to see the red beret-wearing Guardian Angels patrol the Upper West Side, like a vision from an earlier, larger, sluggish New York.
Yet we can all do more.
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