Posted on 08/25/2019 5:20:29 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Even before the firing of Officer Daniel Pantaleo, cops were backing off. Who can blame them?
Under de Blasio and the city’s progressive district attorneys — they feel under siege.
The disrespect of cop dousings inevitably turned violent when three officers were injured as people hurled heavy objects rather than water.
Joseph Imperatrice, founder of Blue Lives Matter, said, "The days of proactive policing are completely done.”
Patrick Lynch, Police Benevolent Association boss, urged cops this week to “proceed with the utmost caution in this new reality, in which they may be deemed ‘reckless’ just for doing their job.”
Lynch is ripping Police Commissioner James O’Neill for doing de Blasio’s bidding, rather than backing his troops.
O’Neill admitted on Monday when he announced he was firing Pantaleo that in a 13-year career that included 289 arrests, Pantaleo had never injured anyone.
But Eric Garner was an obese time bomb of poor health who made the fatal decision to resist arrest.
Pantaleo tried to subdue him with two departmentally approved restraint moves that proved useless. A bystander video shows the officer shifted his grip for seven seconds to the banned “chokehold” position after the struggle smacked him against a glass storefront window that visibly began to buckle.
Given the possibility of both men crashing through the window with potentially fatal consequences, Pantaleo did what he knew would bring Garner under control. What he did not know was that Garner had heart problems that contributed to his tragic death.
As a consequence, broken-windows policing is kaput, which is exactly what social justice progressives like de Blasio always wanted.
But, as this city knows from life pre-Giuliani, if police give up the relentless daily battle, then violence, lawlessness and fear take over.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Can’t disagree with this too. But the end result is still appalling.
Wasn’t that “woman” also drunk? Drunk, stupid and armed...
Don’t forget the few on here that defended the murder of Daniel Shaver.
What is “Marshall Law?”
I haven’t.
Martial law is the imposition of direct military control of normal civilian functions by a government, especially in response to a temporary emergency such as invasion or major disaster, or in an occupied territory.
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