The Mayor should have said “until further notice there will be a 9 pm curfew in all high crime areas (mostly black communities), and all protests are shut down for the next six months until we investigate how far these cop killing threats go.
We will be searching cars going in and out of those neighborhoods on a daily basis. And anyone who does not obey a police order on the first request will be considered as resisting arrest and treated as such.”
And then this would not have happened. That neighborhood would have had a search in and out of that community where those officers were killed, as they were there because of high crime reports.
That protest about killing cops, should have been a “stop now” by police on authority by the Mayor with immediate search, arrests for threats; and let them be tied up in the court system for a few months to cool their heels.
That should have been Mayor Di Blasios first approach and attitude, and not that people need to explain how to act when stopped by the police.
Effectively, there will be a curfew -- but it will be a curfew of cops patrolling high crime neighborhoods.
NYPD's aggressive policing didn't begin until Giuliani was elected. The cops knew he had their backs if they went out on a limb -- or at least that he wouldn't saw the limb off while they were standing on it (like de Blasio).
