That street sign reminded me that the Thompkins name sounded familiar.
Web search found the Thompkins Park Riots (1988) that is what I was thinking about. (Don’t know if this street is anywhere near the park). It had seen labor riots at the turn of the century as well. Here’s an odd/ironic/prophetic comment on the web. Note the same-old attitude of victimization remains the same:
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The police riot in 1988 was another spark in Tompkins Square’s long history as a touchstone for moments of economic injustice in New York. From the labor movement at the turn of the century, when thousands of unemployed fighting for labor rights were attacked and crushed by the NYPD, to the riots in 1988, and the continued fight against gentrification, the flash points seem to gravitate toward the East Village, and Tompkins Square Park. It connects the park to the larger, national problem of police brutality and the continued struggle against the pervasive national atmosphere that excuses and even condones such brutality against marginalized people.
How many white house officials will attend the funeral of these two fallen officers ?????
Now these officers have been killed it’s going to be all about calming the masses yet again...
Social media has many in the black community and commies supporting them...grumbling and complaining just as suspected would follow this...
Obama too has to figure out how he’s going to spin this....
What a mess!
Patrick Lynch, head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association that is the country’s largest municipal police union, said, “There’s blood on many hands tonight.”
“Those that incited violence on the street under the guise of protest, that tried to tear down what New York City police officers did every day,” ....Lynch told a news conference. “That blood on the hands ‘starts on the steps of City Hall in the office of the mayor.”