Posted on 11/03/2011 11:08:31 AM PDT by presidio9
Mayor Bloomberg said by Occupy Wall Street protesters not reporting crimes in Zuccotti Park, they were “allowing the criminal to strike again.” Mayor Bloomberg ripped into Occupy Wall Street protesters on Thursday for not reporting crimes at Zuccotti Park - calling their inaction "despicable."
Bloomberg said the demonstrators have a practice of surrounding a troublemaker and then evicting them from the park instead of calling the NYPD.
"If this is in fact happening - and it's very hard to get good information - it is despicable," the infuriated mayor said. "I think it is outrageous and it really allows the criminal to strike again making all of us less safe."
A Brooklyn man was charged Wednesday night for groping an 18-year-old protestor - and he has also been linked to a rape case in the Zuccotti Park.
But instead of calling the cops, the protesters allegedly encircled the suspect - Tonye Ilketubosin, 26 - and kicked him out of their encampment, Bloomberg said.
The mayor called the demonstrators' brand of vigilante justice "disturbing" and flared his temper when asked if he was "very" concerned about the practice.
"'Very' understates it," Hizzoner said. "It is a very high priority. We have an obligation to protect everybody in the city."
PHOTOS: OCCUPY WALL STREET GOES GLOBAL
The mayor's fury was unleashed a day after he warned Wall Street protesters that the city may "take actions" due to quality-of-life complaints from their downtown neighbors.
Bloomberg did not elaborate as to what his breaking point might be - and stressed that the protesters had a right to express themselves. He also insisted, however, that the rights of those who live and work near Zuccotti Park also had to be protected.
Hundreds of police barricades that blocked off the streets near the park - including Wall St. itself - were removed Wednesday after local merchants complained to local lawmakers.
But many of the steel fences were put back in place hours later when the demonstrators began to march through the neighborhood.
Bloomberg and Zuccotti Park owners Brookfield Partners backed off a previous plan to remove the protesters from the site in order to give it a thorough cleaning.
But the mayor said that Brookfield was "very concerned" about recent developments in the park.
"They are clearly worried about their liability and we are dealing with them all the time," he said.
There have been several documented gropings and assaults in the park since the protests began in September, but officials believe many more were never reported to police.
The city's 311 system has also logged 345 complaints against demonstrators - 65 of which were noise complaints.
That's one way of looking about it. Another way is that 246 were not.
Last night South Park had an interesting take one the inevitibabilty of fractioning within this leaderless group.
The scum of the earth is floating around messing up everything it touches. Time for it to sink back to the bottom of the barrel where it belongs.
Maybe the people (100% of the people) would have more confidence in and cooperate with the Mayor and the Police if the Mayor and the Police would stop picking and choosing which laws, regulations, etc they will or will not enforce.
The Mayor and the Police should stop playing favorites and politics and enforce the rule of law equally to all. Either that or they should quit.
Asking lawbreakers to report those who break the law. Good logic, Your disHonor.
Anarchists that you can use to advance the cause of communism: GOOD
Anarchists that usurp your power: BAD
Got it.
Bloomberg is an idiot they are the ones committing the crimes or hasn’t he peeked outside of his marxism long enough to see?
You want to be more careful how you sling around the "Marxist" accusation, lest you cheapen it the way liberals have with "racist." Mike Blooberg? Authoritarian, sure, but the guy is still a capitalist.
I hear your point but ask any New Yorker that has fled NYCity and moved along the east coast because of the high taxes and communist rule of non smoking and environwhacko ideals how far left Bloomberg is.
LOL this is one time when the scumbag tort lawyers may do some good.
See there you go with the C-word again. Surely there are people you disagree with in this world other than communists. Mike's authoritarianism is actually more closely aligned with Fascism, but, again, that word has been bastardized into essential meaninglessness in by our liberal friends.
"It makes me look like the schmuck I am," Hizzoner was heard to say...
the infowarrior
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