Gov. Hochul rolls back big guns in National Guard NYC subway bag searches
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4223315/posts
I’m not buying that she removed the long guns because people were scared by them.
There had to be some sort of undisclosed threat for her to have NG at Grand Central and Penn Stations while ignoring Times Square.
Maybe it is a test run for when/if President Trump has a rally in Madison Square Garden?
These people are insane.
I guess they would rather be threatened and killed in the subways than have the NG going through bags because that is scary.
FTA:
“It’s incredibly irresponsible and a chilling symbol,” said Cahn, adding that he worried about “the normalization of militarized tactics” in the transit system.
Donna Lieberman, head of the New York Civil Liberties Union, agreed.
“Treating our public transit system like a war zone is an unnecessary overreaction based on fear, not facts,” she said in a statement.
“Deploying military personnel to the subways will not make New Yorkers feel safe,” she said “It will, unfortunately, create a perfect storm for tension, escalation and further criminalization of Black and Brown New Yorkers.”