Posted on 07/12/2020 5:15:49 AM PDT by Libloather
A New York City store owner is suing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, accusing state and city leaders of failing to send in law enforcement to respond to the rioting that happened during recent protests, according to the attorney handling the case.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Domus Design Center, an interior design business located on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, also names Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea as co-defendants.
“Basically, the city and state government owe a duty to the individual storefronts to protect them," attorney Sal Strazzullo said Friday on “Fox & Friends.”
"My law firm believes [that] through depositions, through discovery we’re going to be able to find that the city or state had intelligence in regards to these criminals that looted these stores and didn’t do anything about it,” he added.
Strazzullo continued, “The lackeys that are politically appointed in the NYPD probably were told to stand down and basically it is a travesty."
He added that he believes more businesses will join as plaintiffs to make it a class-action lawsuit, seeking more than $100 million in damages.
The NYPD Lieutenants Benevolent Association on Tuesday slammed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other leaders for labeling the department “incompetent” and siding with “peaceful protesters,” despite a video showing a protester hitting a lieutenant on the back of his head with a brick amid riots and looting sparked by the death of George Floyd.
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Hope he wins. Big.
Cuomo and DeBlasio are gambling when they empower a mob that loots and burns while “protesting”. Imagine for a moment that the protesters, enraged that the Democrat liberals situate their abortion clinics in black neighborhoods, turn their anger and rage on these institutions near and dear to Democats Cuomo and DeBlasio. How would the police respond. They are a bit out of practice controlling mobs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
Warren v. District of Columbia[1] (444 A.2d. 1, D.C. Ct. of Ap. 1981) is a District of Columbia Court of Appeals case that held that the police do not owe a specific duty to provide police services to citizens based on the public duty doctrine.
He’s Pontius Pilate when it comes to that - he’ll wash his hands of it and say it was Trump’s fault, go sue him.
All deliberate maneuvering to disrupt the Presidential elections, no matter who gets hurt. They also know a lot of small business people vote conservatively. The level of evil involved in a grab for power matches that of all despots throughout history.
Right-He’d have success if ALL the business owners presented a class action suit.
I wonder what I would do. Join the class in the hopes of a small payout but no legal costs for me? Or hang back and move in when after the suit finishes in the hopes the litigants will win.
Face it, class actions pay pennies to everyone in the class. Only the lawyers win big.
In that case it was negligence/slow response of the police (if I read the case correctly).
In this case the cops were SPECIFICALLY ORDERED not to respond.
The Warren case may have been different had the DC Mayor called the precinct ant told it specifically to ignore the 911 call.
Cuomo gave aid and comfort to the enemy. The bagpipe player will get right on it.
Make these federal 14th Amendment cases, please.
Or Castle Rock v. Gonzales. Although there are monetary damages here.
About time. Look for his lynching in the future.
He always does, by design.
Hope he wins as well.
If he does decide to re-open, he’s going to need to put the Roof Koreans on speed dial.
Up until the 1960’s, many states had laws that made cities responsible for damage to property caused by riots and looting. They were a part of Eminent Domain laws, known as “reverse condemnation.” By government decision (or indecision), police giving up protecting certain quarters, etc... private property was taken by the mob.
These laws were quite common, generally until Democrats took control of most urban centers by the 1960s.
Case dismissed.
When will the relatives that Cuomo killed in nursing homes sue him for mass murder?
“Basically, the city and state government owe a duty to the individual storefronts to protect them,” attorney Sal Strazzullo said Friday on “Fox & Friends.”
Actually they don’t. SCOTUS has ruled so repeatedly.
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