is New York City dead?

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

Just imagine if this year's hottest high end fashions were looted and started to be worn by the poor! They'd have to create a whole season of replacement fashions, and how could that be done during COVID!

sharing all the burrr
berry, yoo-hoohoohoohoo

http://lettertothemayor.nyc/

Gracie Mansion being marched on

hope Bill is holed up at Saks

pshaw, it'd be more effective to march on the park slope y

that's the cop unions' assembly spot

The NLG-NYC has confirmed: The NYPD’s Intelligence Division & the FBI are questioning people arrested at the recent New York City protests about their political beliefs and affiliations, among other things.

REMEMBER: YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS TO REMAIN SILENT AND TO TALK WITH A LAWYER pic.twitter.com/HsOGaE567B

— Gideon Orion Oliver (@gideonoliver) June 4, 2020

you sent him the wrong video https://t.co/5MD2oM3lwj

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) June 5, 2020

Is this guy lying or delusional? There's no third option. https://t.co/6vfiWXHiGb

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) June 4, 2020

the light touch:

https://gothamist.com/news/live-protest-updates-june-4

Shea directing the brutality in the Bronx. Fire and incarcerate him.

@NYPDChiefofDept was here for all of this. Here he is ordering the arrest of Shannon Jones as the group behind him gets kettled https://t.co/1O9JqdXyHz https://t.co/r5Mbi0Q4tm

— Jake Offenhartz (@jangelooff) June 5, 2020

In an editorial entitled "Mayor de Blasio, Open Your Eyes. The Police Are Out of Control," published by the Times on Thursday night, the paper's editorial board urges the mayor to either regain control of his police department, or fire his police commissioner, Dermot Shea.

"Mr. de Blasio appears unwilling to confront the reality that the department is failing to meet the demands of this moment. Officers have been allowed to behave in a manner that disgraces their mission to protect and serve, and violates the public trust," the board writes. "The mayor is allowing that to happen."

"If [Shea] cannot maintain control of his officers, Mr. de Blasio must find someone who can."

On at his daily press conference on Friday, Mayor de Blasio once again offered a fulsome defense of the NYPD's actions on Thursday night, while denying a Gothamist reporter's version of events that he personally witnessed.

https://gothamist.com/news/live-protest-updates-june-5-2020

DeBlasio needs to dominate the space

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/nyregion/coronavirus-leaving-nyc.html

it's afraid of the cops too

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZshXMAX0AkMiq1?format=jpg&name=small

hahaha

At a joint press conference on Friday afternoon, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Brooklyn City Councilmember Brad Lander attempted to explain what they saw last night after they joined a protest in Fort Greene. After 10 p.m., the NYPD had kettled hundreds of protesters onto Washington Avenue, and mass arrests and violence seemed imminent, until Williams and Lander intervened, and police released demonstrators 20 at a time.

"The night before and the night before that, I saw things I can't explain," Williams said. "The mayor is delusional," Williams added. "I don't know what else to say."

Councilmember Lander said that the mayor's curfew "makes the enforcement arbitrary and capricious and random and escalates the violence," and he called it counterproductive and unconstitutional.

Asked about Mayor de Blasio refusal to acknowledge that peaceful protesters are being beaten night after night on the streets of New York City, despite the numerous accounts from protesters and journalists, Lander replied, "The mayor is gaslighting the people of New York City right now. And it really is dangerous."

Lander and Williams are my NY pols of choice

the great dream is for De Blasio to resign, which would make Williams the mayor. sigh.

apparently in December Williams said that he wouldn't be running for mayor in 2021?

i guess the city really is dead

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZw51OgXkAIrT0N?format=jpg&name=small

lady i've never heard of doesn't want to live here is okay by me

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WhoppingNaturalGardensnake-max-1mb.gif

she's a federalist person who once wrote We Need To Start Befriending Neo Nazis

a beckyexodus would kill nyc

bexodus

bexit, obvs
it would kill sephora at least

she also got "grandma killer" trending on twitter

‘82 vibes around the city

BdB a drowning man

https://gothamist.com/news/heres-full-transcript-mayor-de-blasio-brian-lehrer-show

not sure what it's going to take. maybe a walkout by his entire staff? seems possible

he'll only resign if cuomo tells him not to

on repeat, a balm for the soul

“New York City is Trump country now! Get me outta here and you win a prize!”

Someone won the prize. pic.twitter.com/GmeRZlfZK3

— Damon Young (@damonayoung) June 5, 2020

haha brainless fuck

Lol I expected that to be way more violent

This curfew blows

that dude looks like dril

You know what the title of that book should be? "Yes, I Can If Andrew Cuomo Says It's OK". 'Cause Andrew calls the shots for all of those guys. Did you get to the part yet where uh...Bill is coming out of the Copa... it's about 3 o'clock in the morning and, uh, he sees Andrew? Andrew's walking down Broadway by himself...

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