is New York City dead?

that's here btw: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/32890

not seeing any other way to read mass arrests and looting downtown other than as a total clusterfuck; curfew appears to have escalated the situation radically.

Shocking!

it was a phenomenally dumb move. Sounds like a major peaceful protest in Brooklyn came off without a problem but Manhattan got ugly.

and now these fuckers are going to stage an 8pm curfew for tuesday
i am in full on "can't sleep clown will eat me" mode. no idea how this city and its people are going to recover over the next few weeks.

the areas being hit - soho, union square, herald square - are predominantly the homes of the rich and hang out spots for tourists and knucklehead teenagers; it's gotta be like 95% the latter doing the looting.

Feels like a very organized effort tonight - kids have turned up with hammers and big bags, they have spotters on the corners and cars ready to go. Group of about 500 kids now running up Fifth Ave looting whatever they want pic.twitter.com/vP97YCLis7

— Rachel Olding (@rachelolding) June 2, 2020

which is to say - and i know i'm preaching to the choir here but it feels worth noting - that the protestors are not driving or motivating this looting

Some young men just tried to loot an Aldo on 5th Ave when other protesters grabbed them, pulled one guy out the store window, and made them stop. An argument about looting then ensued. #NYCProtest #GeorgeFloyd pic.twitter.com/cQaG7GHMtR

— Liam Stack (@liamstack) June 1, 2020

I’m rooting for the looters. Those kids are having fun out there.

i could give a shit about macy's but those kids having fun out there are allowing nyc residents and world media to associate anti-brutality protests with smash-and-grab robberies which couldn't be more counterproductive.

bonus: a significant number of those kids having fun out there are gonna get their heads cracked open and/or potentially catch a felony when nypd decides to go over the tapes.

and hey not for nothing but given that we've all been in full quarantine lockdown in this city for nearly three months and we've just had a buffet of local violent attacks by the cops on protesters, maybe full-on fucking looting in manhattan is maybe a bit more anarchy than any of us are down for at this precise moment.

silby for presidetn

God forbid

I don’t think my “property crime is fine” plank is much of a winner

abolish property, eradicate property crime

garnish police brass wages to insure looted businesses

Fifth Ave chains can all burn with my blessing

Police scanner was invaluable last night

Fifth Ave chains can all burn with my blessing

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, June 2, 2020 4:58 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

basically how i feel about looting in manhattan

tourism insurance

stay in Red states where you belong

where will the clothes live now

big box stores

and on white trash asses

Always me with my banal concerns but 8 pm tonight is fucking early for a curfew. Where is this giant puppy supposed to take his last piss!

not sure i understand the purpose or efficacy of curfews given the past few days, other than terrorizing your own populace of course

Criminalizing same, mostly.

u good, bro xxp

deBlasio defending cops to hilt when his own daughter was arrested fascinates me in a sick way

horrible asshole

An emotional ⁦@NYPDChiefofDept⁩ tells ⁦@JoshEiniger7⁩ that it’s time to get the agitators “out of here” - “from California, from all over this country, who are being paid to take this movement, which is a good movement, and turn it into violence.” ⁦@ABC7NY⁩ pic.twitter.com/Zz87dA3UDT

— Morena Basteiro (@morenabasteiro) June 1, 2020

Zephyr for mayor

"Under a Program presented by de Blasio, police spending accounted for only 0.3 percent of out-year budget savings; 34 percent of the spending reductions came from … cuts to education."

Can we get to 2/3rds of the Council for a just budget?https://t.co/NKcNsgzfgO

— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) June 2, 2020

jon i am inclined to think that a white guy with a dog on a leash within a block of his home is less likely to be harassed than anyone, you should be okay

big box stores
and on white trash asses
fifth avenue chains
reified in praxis

Bergdorf Goodman
Saks Fifth Ave
Badgley Mischka
I can have

Nobody's voting for this guy right?

!!! @RepEliotEngel heard on hot mic asking @rubendiazjr for a turn to speak, says twice, "If I didn't have a primary, I wouldn't care."

Diaz responds, "Don't do that to me."

(h/t @News12BX livestream) pic.twitter.com/eQnkzLiEId

— Emily Ngo (@emilyngo) June 2, 2020

Washington Square Park, Manhattan New York June 2nd 2:40pm #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/KewRgGu7Io

— Steven Thomas (@stevendotthomas) June 2, 2020

excited to find out how many delivery/restaurant people get vanished by NYPD/ICE tonite

Cuomo is really a much savvier fascist than Trump

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/cuomo-claims-he-could-remove-de-blasio-but-wont-for-now.html

lmao what

they're idiots who deserve each other afaict

zero argument

https://twitter.com/hashtag/offthebridge

don't live there so i'll take his word for it

At Barclays Center now. Very calm situation. So far, the curfew is certainly helping, based on everything I’ve seen in Brooklyn and Manhattan over the last three hours.

— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) June 3, 2020

translates mostly as 'tourist zone had a safe night'

NY Post hed is SAKS SAFE so we can all sigh safely

It did seem quieter on the police scanner as well fwiw

whenever pols use hyperbole now ("very calm situation") I think of Trump. Ugh

He has poisoned the word ‘very’ for sure

"I'm reminded of the song 'Imagine' by John Lennon," @NYCMayor says

— katie honan (@katie_honan) June 3, 2020

there it is

imagine there's no Target