Video shows New Jersey police using batons, pepper spray to break up crowd

NBC ^ | 05 06 2020 | Janelle Griffith

[yesthatjallen]

Police officers in New Jersey are facing scrutiny over their use of force after videos of their response to reports of a street fight went viral on social media.

While authorities say the use of batons and pepper spray was justified and some of the viral videos have been edited, Jersey City residents who witnessed Tuesday's incident blame police for escalating the situation.

Officials said at a news conference Wednesday that the situation escalated after a juvenile tried to grab an officer's gun. Police Chief Michael Kelly said that three 911 calls were received within a short time Tuesday regarding a street fight on Bostwick Avenue. The last call indicated that 100 people were involved.

Kelly said six officers were dispatched and that a crowd engaged with and fought responding officers.

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"While attempting to disperse the crowd, one of our officers was attacked by a juvenile male, who grabbed him around the midsection area attempting to take his weapon or appearing to take his weapon, definitely pulling at his duty belt," Shea said.

The juvenile was pursued by two officers who arrested him.

"He resisted and he was joined by two females, who also resisted the arrest," Shea said.

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[aquila48]

We’re the juveniles “teens”?

[dp0622]

Yoots

[P.O.E.]

Nice to see things returning to normal /s

[AlaskaErik]

At today’s press conference our Republican governor was asked about enforcement against a business going rogue and opening up. He said he trusts businesses and Alaskans to do what’s right and that the police would never be sent in. In Alaska, all of our decisions have been have been based on the advice of the Chief Medical Officer and the Commissioner of the Dept of Health and Social Services. Law Enforcement plays no part in our fight against COVID-19.

[Deaf Smith]

“One riot. One Ranger.”

[lightman]

Pennsylvania claimed that first:

“One riot-—one Statie!”

[doorgunner69]

A chimp-out in progress?

[lightman]

Try to disarm an officer and all the rules of engagement have gone bye-bye.

Yutes couldve/shouldve had a dirt nap.

If they’re sucking down oxygen its a bonus.

[JoSixChip]

Isn’t this how “Hands-up, Don’t Shoot” started?

[Pollard]

So glad I followed my parents out of the Northeast in the mid 80s when my dad retired to FL.

[EEGator]

Well, “youths” are known for outstanding impulse control...

[GreyHoundSailor]

Always best to engage tyrants at a healthy stand-off distance.

[wastedyears]

hussein must have lots of kids.

[SaveFerris]

Seems that one of the teens has a cop down on the ground. I can't quite tell from here but if Obama had a son, it might be him. Obama should be claiming him any moment now. Any moment now.

[DoodleBob]

This looks like a good place for the latest installment of the updated tracking of size- and time-adjusted COVID-19 deaths at the state and national level. Details can be found here.

Note for the US as nation, that Day 1 is March 25, which means Day 43 is May 5 for that row of data. You can do the math for the other municipalities to find out what Day XX means for them in calendar times; as a general rule, the last actual data point is the freshest date, but on a Golf timeline it gives each municipality's score as of the "43rd hole."

The sort order is Day 43 for the international table, with Canada and Israel added based their Day 36 rankings (which are very favorable). For the states' data, I sort by Day 36 which generally keeps the relative ranking steady for later days, most notably for the states with higher than national fatality totals.

The international ranking of the US hasn't changed in a long time. Sweden's fatality total exceeded that of the Netherlands a few days ago. Both countries' "hands off" approach hasn't yielded fewer fatalities than the US, but Sweden deserves its own scrutiny because they aren't truly a hands-off/'flubro' nirvana.

Stateside, for Day 43 the ranking of municipalities adjusted fatalities higher than the US as a whole remains unchanged: New York (Blue), New Jersey (Blue), Connecticut (Blue), Massachusetts (Blue), Michigan (Red), Louisiana (Red) and District of Columbia (Blue), respectively.

A special word about New Jersey. As a State, it is almost as bad on a size-adjusted basis as San Marino (the worst country on the planet on a size-adjusted basis). I looked into the state totals by county, and made the same size-adjustment. I thought I'd find that the problems were isolated to a few populous counties, but not so: it's pretty widespread. To be sure, only six of the counties have size-adjusted fatalities higher than that for the State as a whole vs 16 with fewer fatalities. But only three counties have size-adjusted fatalities lower than that for the US as a whole. Nice job, Murphy.

Pray for everyone impacted.

County	Population	Fatalities at 5/5/2020	USA-Adjusted Fatalities
Essex	799,767	1,319	543,514
Union	558,067	768	453,528
Bergen	936,692	1,261	443,658
Passaic	503,310	663	434,118
Hudson	676,061	870	424,095
Morris	494,228	474	316,068
NJ	8,958,013	8,549	314,509
Somerset	331,164	306	304,515
Warren	105,779	91	283,512
Sussex	140,799	120	280,874
Middlesex	829,685	667	264,937
Ocean	601,651	469	256,896
Mercer	369,811	280	249,521
Monmouth	621,354	398	211,093
Burlington	445,384	164	121,350
Camden	507,078	180	116,984
Hunterdon	124,714	38	100,415
Cape May	92,560	26	92,572
Salem	62,607	15	78,958
Gloucester	291,408	61	68,986
Atlantic	265,429	51	63,322
Cumberland	150,972	23	50,207

Country	Date of Day 1=day priot to hitting 1,000+ population-adjusted deaths	Population	Day 36	Day 37	Day 38	Day 39	Day 40	Day 41	Day 42	Day 43	Day 44	Day 45	Day 46
San Marino	3/3/20	33,574	333,738	333,738	333,738	333,738	343,554	343,554	343,554	353,370	353,370	373,001	382,817
Belgium	3/19/20	11,524,454	185,590	190,994	197,800	202,862	206,093	209,639	214,501	217,160	220,277	222,050	224,309
Andorra	3/21/20	77,543	169,999	169,999	169,999	174,249	178,499	178,499	182,749	186,999	191,249	191,249	195,499
Spain	3/13/20	47,100,396	139,952	140,239	143,107	145,899	148,908	151,951	155,030	157,598	160,243	162,258	164,574
United Kingdom	3/20/20	66,435,550	97,063	101,101	103,150	104,950	107,867	129,798	133,151	136,827	139,912	141,475	142,908
Italy	3/5/20	60,243,406	99,994	103,112	106,498	108,856	111,952	115,245	118,407	121,279	124,425	127,061	129,430
France	3/18/20	67,076,000	105,009	107,545	109,461	111,274	112,463	114,610	116,413	118,511	119,931	121,002	121,665
Ireland	3/25/20	4,921,500	79,685	82,498	84,708	86,114	87,252	88,324	89,663	92,074	-	-	-
Sweden	3/23/20	10,333,456	72,523	75,106	78,519	82,473	84,610	85,120	85,439	88,309	91,020	93,795	-
Netherlands	3/17/20	17,451,031	74,198	76,823	79,164	81,279	83,546	84,811	85,623	86,529	89,268	90,854	92,705
United States	3/25/20	329,556,365	60,967	62,996	64,943	66,369	67,682	68,922	71,064	73,431	-	-	-
Switzerland	3/16/20	8,586,550	54,846	56,726	57,916	59,451	60,987	61,370	61,793	63,904	65,209	65,861	66,667
Luxembourg	3/17/20	613,894	41,873	42,946	44,557	45,631	45,631	47,241	47,241	47,778	47,778	48,315	49,388
Canada	4/1/20	37,979,093	37,885	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Macedonia	3/24/20	679,600	34,430	35,400	37,339	39,279	39,764	40,734	41,219	41,704	42,674	-	-
Portugal	3/23/20	10,276,617	29,760	30,401	31,203	31,716	32,293	32,806	33,448	34,089	34,442	34,923	-
Germany	3/25/20	83,149,300	25,631	26,250	26,698	26,999	27,213	27,716	27,716	28,834	-	-	-
Denmark	3/22/20	5,822,763	23,884	24,167	24,564	25,073	25,582	26,035	26,884	27,393	27,903	28,469	28,639
Austria	3/23/20	8,902,600	20,323	21,063	21,470	21,619	21,804	22,063	22,137	22,211	22,433	22,507	-
Iran	3/9/20	83,331,064	18,133	18,520	18,892	19,256	19,608	19,897	20,241	20,600	20,948	21,320	21,676
Iceland	3/23/20	364,260	9,047	9,047	9,047	9,047	9,047	9,047	9,047	9,047	9,047	9,047	-
Israel	4/1/20	9,180,000	8,580	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Municipality	Date of Day 1 = day prior to breaching size-adj 1,000 COVID19 fatalities	Population	Day 36	Day 37	Day 38	Day 39	Day 40	Day 41	Day 42	Day 43	Day 44	Day 45	Day 46
New York	43,910	19,795,791	269,062	276,337	282,447	288,057	293,634	299,910	305,004	309,816	314,793	319,455	323,217
New Jersey	43,913	8,958,013	222,353	236,995	249,062	265,911	277,316	284,820	289,566	291,001	303,289	314,509	-
Connecticut	43,913	3,590,886	184,653	191,720	198,970	207,138	214,664	223,566	223,566	234,579	241,646	249,447	-
Massachusetts	43,915	6,794,422	165,156	172,771	180,241	186,546	194,210	198,381	204,299	214,387	-	-	-
Michigan	43,914	9,922,576	118,437	121,891	125,810	128,401	133,515	134,479	137,335	138,796	141,354	-	-
Louisiana	43,910	4,670,724	112,963	115,997	117,832	119,737	124,041	127,145	131,379	135,965	137,588	138,928	140,481
Rhode Island	43,919	1,056,298	99,837	106,389	110,757	115,437	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
District of Columbia	43,914	672,228	93,147	100,500	109,815	113,247	117,659	123,051	126,483	129,425	135,798	-	-
Pennsylvania	43,918	12,802,503	71,922	73,183	74,136	82,527	86,106	-	-	-	-	-	-
Maryland	43,921	6,006,401	70,779	78,845	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Illinois	43,917	12,859,995	63,144	66,014	67,449	68,500	72,856	76,213	-	-	-	-	-
United States	43,915	329,556,365	60,967	62,996	64,943	66,369	67,682	68,922	71,064	73,431	-	-	-
Delaware	43,917	945,934	55,394	58,530	61,665	63,407	65,149	67,240	-	-	-	-	-
Indiana	43,916	6,619,680	50,133	52,871	55,510	56,356	57,302	60,388	68,553	-	-	-	-
Colorado	43,914	5,456,574	44,331	46,143	46,807	49,404	50,129	50,733	51,276	54,417	55,504	-	-
Georgia	43,913	10,214,860	31,649	32,972	35,037	36,166	37,199	37,457	37,683	39,618	41,199	42,812	-
Mississippi	43,917	2,992,333	30,948	32,049	33,370	34,141	37,666	41,190	-	-	-	-	-
Ohio	43,919	11,614,373	29,453	29,964	32,205	34,759	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Minnesota	43,921	5,489,594	27,315	29,116	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
New Mexico	43,922	2,085,109	26,711	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Virginia	43,919	8,382,993	25,946	26,890	28,030	28,030	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nevada	43,914	2,890,845	25,650	27,018	27,702	28,956	29,298	29,868	30,324	31,464	32,946	-	-
Washington	43,898	7,170,351	23,486	24,130	25,370	26,290	27,025	28,036	28,909	29,277	30,380	31,391	31,989
Missouri	43,922	6,083,672	23,185	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Iowa	43,922	3,123,899	23,103	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
New Hampshire	43,922	1,330,608	22,786	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Florida	43,919	20,271,272	22,403	22,728	23,898	25,020	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Alabama	43,921	4,858,979	21,365	23,264	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Vermont	43,908	626,042	21,057	22,636	23,162	24,215	24,215	24,741	24,741	24,741	25,794	26,321	26,847
Kentucky	43,920	4,425,092	19,885	20,704	21,076	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Oklahoma	43,917	3,911,338	19,379	20,053	20,053	20,053	20,811	21,317	-	-	-	-	-
Wisconsin	43,919	5,771,337	19,358	19,415	20,157	20,671	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
California	43,917	39,144,818	18,075	18,631	18,816	19,338	20,087	20,744	-	-	-	-	-
Arizona	43,920	6,828,065	17,472	19,065	20,561	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
South Carolina	43,917	4,896,146	17,231	17,972	18,510	19,049	19,924	20,529	-	-	-	-	-
Kansas	43,919	2,911,641	16,072	17,431	18,110	18,562	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Maine	43,920	1,329,328	14,131	15,123	15,371	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nebraska	43,922	1,896,190	13,556	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Idaho	43,918	1,654,930	12,745	12,745	12,745	13,143	13,143	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tennessee	43,921	6,600,299	11,684	11,933	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
North Dakota	43,919	756,927	10,885	10,885	10,885	13,497	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Arkansas	43,921	2,978,204	9,184	9,627	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Puerto Rico	43,922	3,680,058	8,866	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Oregon	43,917	4,028,977	8,507	8,916	8,916	8,916	9,243	9,407	-	-	-	-	-
Montana	43,919	1,032,949	5,105	5,105	5,105	5,105	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

[SaveFerris]

[Officials said at a news conference Wednesday that the situation escalated after a juvenile tried to grab an officer's gun]

[lee martell]

Police often are not being allowed to police.

[absalom01]

More ghetto drama from the “before times”. Might get interesting going forward.

[PA Engineer]

LOL. I couldn’t figure out why you pinged me to this thread. As good a place as any.