Posted on 07/18/2020 1:39:28 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Large crowds of maskless revelers are packing the streets in Astoria and partying like there’s no pandemic.
A video shot Friday night shows hundreds of partiers packing Steinway Street as an NYPD cruiser tries to get by and police tell people to “get out of the street.”
The crowd cheers as the car moves on, then fills the street again, plastic cups in hand. They stood in front of bars and restaurants, some of which had tables out for dining.
Later, a group of officers can be seen standing on a corner looking on as crowds walk by.
Another video posted to Twitter early Saturday morning shows people dancing and jumping up and down on Steinway Street.
And Twitter user @vodkapond posted a video that appeared to show alcohol being sold out of the back of cars and asked, “Anyone going to do anything about this?” tagging Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio.
The NYPD said it responded to the area around 12:30 a.m. Saturday after receiving a traffic complaint and that “officers issued multiple verbal orders for the crowd to disperse. The crowd cleared out without incident.”
The NYPD said it issued 20 summonses for double parking and bus stop violations — but no social distancing violations.
John Zorbas, who owns the Brik restaurant on Steinway Street, where crowds have amassed outside, said he did not know why the area has become a party zone.
“Maybe they feel comfortable because no one’s telling them to do anything. I don’t know what they’re thinking. I’m just trying to run a business,” Zorbas said.
He said the area needed help.
“We can’t control what hundreds of people are doing,” he said. “Yeah, we need some help. Where it’s going to come from? I don’t know.”
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There is something about the demographic in this video that I just can't put my finger on. I wonder what it is?
OMG!!!!!!
Pass law or executive orders that people have contempt for, you contribute to the erosion of respect for law in general. Just what we need right now huh? This cant possibly end well. Not even remotely. Bloodshed is a certainty as I see it...
What was an NYPD cruiser doing in Astoria, OR?
I did see a white person in the crowd. I’m sure they are Woke.
It’s whitey’s fault that black people get more COVID.
They were being friendly to the police it seemed, joking around.
The cops aren’t wearing masks ether.
Well in all fairness, you can’t drink out of a plastic cup with a mask on :-)
Maybe they’ve been learning how to counter the masked sheeple by surfing FR.
Since this was an Amish party I guess we won’t be hearing the usual contemptuous scolding by Cuomo and De Dickhead.
Agree 100%. The insanity just keeps going up exponentially. What’s even worse is that John Q Public observes that the idiots in charge of these liberal zoos keep hunkering down on draconian rules for the law abiding citizens and then observes that the same idiots aren’t abiding by their own edicts. Then throw in the fact that hellholes continue to coddle these rioters and nothing is done to them.
Yeah, the few white folks in the crowd might infect all the blacks!
Looks like their women have been eating quite well during lockdown.
I was wondering when did Astoria Oregon have such a demographic shift?
They’re just breaking the rules and laughing about it. A big black middle finger thrusting upward.
Maybe they were visiting from North Portland.
*from what I understand, it is NOT that demographic causing the problems in Portland.
This is the point. Acting “normal” is outlawed — not by law, but by the edict of a couple of politicians ... all for a “good reason”, y’know! However, as others have noted on this thread widespread disregard for law and order is a potentially significant problem (then again, this is more a disrepect of edicts — not of laws — no matter well-intentioned).
If they are not, just hanging out acting like normal people used to do before we were taken captive by the hysterical hand-washers, then it's cool.
I do not care what shade their skin is.
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