The Black Lives Matter race riots in New York City were among the worst in the country. Racist mobs injured hundreds of police officers, started fires, looted stores and vandalized parks and statues. At least 450 businesses, many of them small and family owned, were damaged or looted by the rioters who claimed to be angry over the drug overdose death of George Floyd: a vicious career criminal who had previously robbed a woman by putting a gun to her stomach.
While Black Lives Matter was swimming in hundreds of millions of dollars, funneled to it by radical nonprofits, major corporations and Hollywood celebrities, family businesses in New York City looted by those rioters were offered a maximum of $10,000 to rebuild their shattered lives.
One small business owner in the Bronx complained that it would hardly even begin to cover the $200,000 in damages to her store after rioters “smashed glass display cases and medical equipment”. But participants in an extremist group’s Bronx protest are getting a much better deal. New York City will be paying $21,500 to each of the “protesters” in the Bronx for a total of as much as $6 million. And none of that money will be going to the looted businesses.
This has been described as the largest payout for mass arrests in American history.
The BLM riot era class action lawsuit claimed, among other things that the, “police officers responding to protests frequently failed to wear masks or to assist detained protesters in covering their noses and mouths, and on occasion even forcibly removed protesters’ masks, exposing protesters to a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19.”
Family businesses lost everything and cops and civilians were badly wounded during the BLM riots, but the police officers didn’t always wear masks when trying to control those riots.
Mott Haven, the Bronx neighborhood where the protest took place, was described as “mostly black and brown” and the police intervention as “racist terror.” Mott Haven is actually mostly Hispanic and while the lead plaintiff in the case is black, most of the protesters on video appear to be white hipsters wearing glasses. After the protest was controlled by the police, local business owners sent a message thanking the NYPD for protecting their livelihoods.
The media and leftist lawfare activists claimed that the Bronx protest was “peaceful and non-violent”. In reality, it was organized by a group known as FTP which stands for ‘F__ the Police” and was promoted with a flier featuring a burning police car.
Afterward a press release was put out describing how “the FTP formation launched #FTP4, the fourth in a series of militant actions exposing the every day brutality of the U.S. police state” and boasted that they “had to risk direct confrontation with the most powerful police state in the world to earn recognition of the human rights violations done by the U.S.”
This was as good as an admission that they had set out to provoke a confrontation with the police so as to be able to claim that they were the victims of police brutality.
Furthermore the press release stated that “we denounce any attempt to divide us from protestors who are non-peaceful or who liberate the ill gotten gains and excesses of capitalism.”
This was an endorsement and a defense of BLM rioting and looting.
A previous FTP manual contained not only an image of a burning police car, something BLM rioters repeatedly did, but included a section on “How to Shut Down a City” with a list of items like “Bolt Cutters”, “Bricks”, “Fire”, “Glass Bottles” and “Nails”. It urged “Sabotage Everywhere”.
But the police didn’t wear masks so these very fine people, who may have possibly been exposed to COVID while they were fighting police, get millions while the people whose lives have been ruined get a few thousand or nothing. That’s what a leftist justice system looks like.
None of the media coverage mentions anything about FTP, what it stands for or its manual and its defense of violence and looting. As was its habit during the BLM riots, it describes them in generic terms as “protesters” and the events as “racial justice protests”. These lies by omission have continued for years after the riots devastated communities and claimed so many lives.
FTP’s actions were linked to Decolonize This Place, a movement co-founded by Muslim NYU Professor Amin Husain. A previous FTP event, FTP III, had tried to shut down subways, engaged in vandalism, staged confrontations and used a manual promoting sabotage. The NYPD’s overwhelming response to FTP4 becomes much more understandable within that context. It’s a context that the media carefully fails to provide in its news coverage.
Amin Husain has declared, “I’m fighting for Palestine by fighting here.” He spread images promoting Hamas and the PFLP terrorist group and boasted of having fought in Israel, “I was throwing rocks, Molotov cocktails, the like.” Decolonize This Place had tweeted, “Find targets nearby, Find where these zionist fools live, and where there offices are, and act!”
“Nothing says “peaceful and nonviolent” like calling for an antisemitic purge of Jews.
But not all of the NYPD officers wore face masks while grappling with members of what looks a lot like a terrorist group with foreign enemy links. And so food will be taken out of the mouths of hungry children and millions will be reappropriated to the leftists who waged war on New York.
And the looted businesses will be on the hook to provide that money to their destroyers.
Frank says
On the fast train to the end of days .
Mad Jack says
not on my watch, pal… and there are millions of us out here that feel that same way.
Charles Casaburi says
In the long run the commies will win because of the total focus & commitment they have. People like us have jobs, businesses families & other interests besides politics. These people eat sleep & breath this stuff & can organize well paid mobs to get their way.
Chuck says
Sadly correct. Look at the global sheep , that were controlled by a relatively small amount of corrupt, evil people. The same corruption hasn’t stopped. Globalist who are gaining extreme money and resulting power from the Big Lie, human caused climate change.
ron says
They will win with our tax money and with the money of the international bankers and globalists.
William Krueger says
Amen. The train to Judgment Day is running strong and many, many fools are jumping on.
william carr says
We are used to the insanity of the US legal sysytem but surely this cannot stand and will be appealed.
The real victims of the riots ie. the tax payers will be paying for this largesse.
Dawn Crosby says
Amen, it’s horribly getting worse.
Mickorn says
George Floyd did not die of a drug overdose. There is video footage of the event. There is an official autopsy. There is testimony under oath by the pathologist who performed the autopsy. There was a trial, and the police officers who killed Floyd were found guilty of murder.
Stop lying.
Stop lying.
Stop lying.
Joe Biden says
Thank you young thing, if it wants to lick my feet any time soon please talk with one of my friends, they’ll fix it for us xx
Handler #5 says
Mr. President, we talked about this.
We really need you to stay on script, damn it! Our stenographers in the press can only cover for you so much.
It took a herculean effort to clean up after you blabbed about kids at the pool stroking your leg hair, so please refrain.
(Besides; we already have Jim Acosta tripping over himself to kiss your feet.)
Joe Biden says
C’mon now man, write a report and give it to your supervisor for approval and they’ll modify it a little, pass it to their line manager and they’ll pass it up to their manager who will pass it to the department communications department who will get it approved by their supervisor and they’ll pass it to their manager who will pass it to the assistant director who will pass it to the director’s secretary who will review it and get the department director to approve it and pass it up to the divisional committee who will review it and pass it to the divisional board who will pass it to the corporate board of governors who will review it and recommend a few changes and pass it back to you.
You need to learn how our government operates man.
r m says
When Mr. Trump gets re-elected, expect pardons for law enforcement officers trying to do their job dealing with druggies.
David Ray says
There was indeed a bullshit show trial and a predetermined conviction.
The autopsy report showed almost THREE times the lethal amount of fentanyl.
Your hero had overdosed before in Chicago (gobbling down his drugs to avoid arrest), but the police got the street-trash to a hospital in time.
Emotionally laden idiots saw a video that looked bad and that was enough.
Adults looked at actual evidence including the autopsy report. Adults wait for all the facts – autopsy shows no damage to the scumbag’s throat.
Activist A.G. Keith Ellison withheld several minutes of video from the public for a reason (showed Floyd in excited delirium while still in car).
Ellison knew it’d stoke lesser minds to tantrums & willful blindness.
bill says
Floyd brought this demise on himself. He was a very large man with a reputation for violence, a rap-sheet as long as your arm and a frequent flyer in prison and jail. He was resisting arrest, fighting with the officers for twenty minutes as these same officers tried talking to him into cooperating. He was a thug with a penchant for violent behavior. One of his many atrocities was holding a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly, threatening to kill her unborn child while his accomplices ransacked her home for items to steal. He was captured later driving away in the getaway car.
His airway was never compromised because the officer’s knee was on Floyd’s upper back between the scapulae, not his neck. If one watches the video it’s totally apparent. He did not die from asphyxiation as three independent autopsies have shown. Those same autopsy reports proved he had methamphetamine, fentanyl, marijuana and alcohol in his blood-stream. The conclusion was the substances in his system coupled with the adrenalin because of his combativeness gave him system failure.
Finally, he was breaking many federal and state laws at the time. One of those was passing counterfeit bills. The guy was a thug and killed himself in a manner of speaking. He was certainly not the big teddy-bear as the lying media’s narrative is spewing out…
David Ray says
All true, and it was not his 1st time.
He had pulled that stunt of ingesting all his drugs (to avoid an arrest) in Chicago, but survived the overdose.
Had the street-trash died that day, the world would’ve been spared the following:
¹ that pregnant woman wouldn’t have been viciously assaulted.
² those cops wouldn’t been put on a bullshit Stalinesque show trial
³ months of riots, looting, killings & minority businesses burning wouldn’t have happened.
One caveat: #3 is a definite “maybe”, as leftist scumbags were seeking an excuse, ANY excuse, to stage riots so as to further disrupt Trump’s successful 1st term.
Angel Jacob says
Ellison is the devil. A total abomination to justice, and a disgrace to human kind. He also has ties to foreign terrorists, that’s where he’s got his orders.
Lightbringer says
“Emotionally laden idiots saw a video that looked bad and that was enough.”
They saw the six-some minutes that was shown everywhere one looked. They did not bother to dig deeper and see the additional three or so minutes that explain quite a lot, including footage in the beginning showing the police trying to accommodate Floyd by laying him on the ground as he asked, and more footage at the end showing him with a small white pill on his tongue. But emotionally laden idiots saw more than enough without probing further.
Daniel Greenfield says
I don’t generally refer to lynch mobs as trials. Or rules of evidence drawn right out of the USSR or China.
Or blatant witness intimidation that would embarrass the judiciary of North Korea.
Maryland officials to launch review of cases handled by ex-chief medical examiner who testified in Chauvin’s defense – Washington Post
Come back and try this again without a blatantly corrupt system that has the same standards and tactics as a noose party and maybe somebody who doesn’t have their brain wired into MSNBC will believe you.
Artist says
Reminds one of Ukraine where all Oppo press/ media is verboten, all other political parties have been shut down and if one actually speaks the truth they are placed on the Myrotvorets List, the Ukrainian online Kill List. When someone on the List is killed, a red X is placed on their photo with the word ” Eliminated” scrawled across it.
The US is fast approaching a similar freedomless state .
Daniel Greenfield says
This has nothing to do with Ukraine or Russia.
Please leave the dueling propaganda wars where both sides spend all of their time telling crazy lies about each other while trying to rope in Americans into believing that your fight has anything to do with them at the door.
This is about America.
Noah Andeark says
I for one is VERY PROUD of George Floyd! He’s been drug and felony free for over two years!! That’s a serious accomplishment.
I’m hopeful to see one of the many statues and busts of poor George. I’ll identify as a pigeon, and grace George with my presence!
dani says
hands up – don’t shoot – a useful idiot like you probably believes that fairytale too, which led to days and nights of leftwing violence and cities burning. grow up, tool
Doug says
George Floyd was murdered and Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, got it? Say it again, George Floyd was murdered and Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.
bill says
Floyd brought this demise on himself. He was a very large man with a reputation for violence, a rap-sheet as long as your arm and a frequent flyer in prison and jail. He was resisting arrest, fighting with the officers for twenty minutes as these same officers tried talking to him into cooperating. He was a thug with a penchant for violent behavior. One of his many atrocities was holding a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly, threatening to kill her unborn child while his accomplices ransacked her home for items to steal. He was captured later driving away in the getaway car.
His airway was never compromised because the officer’s knee was on Floyd’s upper back between the scapulae, not his neck. If one watches the video it’s totally apparent. He did not die from asphyxiation as three independent autopsies have shown. Those same autopsy reports proved he had methamphetamine, fentanyl, marijuana and alcohol in his blood-stream. The conclusion was the substances in his system coupled with the adrenalin because of his combativeness gave him system failure.
Finally, he was breaking many federal and state laws at the time. One of those was passing counterfeit bills. The guy was a thug and killed himself in a manner of speaking. He was certainly not the big teddy-bear as the lying media’s narrative is spewing out.
….
Lightbringer says
You forgot to add (sarc) at the end of your post. Most people didn’t get it.
Jeff Paulk says
You are a media-guzzling moron. Floyd was NOT murdered. He died by his own hand due to massive amounts of drugs in his system. He was a career thug and criminal, but idiots in our society try to make a hero out of him. BLM and Antifa need to join Floyd. The autopsy shows drugs in his system. The courts finding the police guilty of murder is no surprise since our judicial system is full of leftists and Marxists. It is corrupt to the bone. You young pinko commies need to pull your heads out of your rectal orifice and get into the real world.
bill says
Floyd brought this demise on himself. He was a very large man with a reputation for violence, a rap-sheet as long as your arm and a frequent flyer in prison and jail. He was resisting arrest, fighting with the officers for twenty minutes as these same officers tried talking to him into cooperating. He was a thug with a penchant for violent behavior. One of his many atrocities was holding a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly, threatening to kill her unborn child while his accomplices ransacked her home for items to steal. He was captured later driving away in the getaway car.
His airway was never compromised because the officer’s knee was on Floyd’s upper back between the scapulae, not his neck. If one watches the video it’s totally apparent. He did not die from asphyxiation as three independent autopsies have shown. Those same autopsy reports proved he had methamphetamine, fentanyl, marijuana and alcohol in his blood-stream. The conclusion was the substances in his system coupled with the adrenalin because of his combativeness gave him system failure.
Finally, he was breaking many federal and state laws at the time. One of those was passing counterfeit bills. The guy was a thug and killed himself in a manner of speaking. He was certainly not the big teddy-bear as the lying media’s narrative is spewing out……
Nunya says
You are a moron.
WT_1964 says
Uh-huh…he only had enough fentanyl in his system to kill himself, you and me.
Stop lying.
Stop lying.
Stop lying.
Phil B says
and this has to do with rioting how? people die everyday and no rioting yet alone getting PAID to riot. The police officer was arrested and found guilty (stupidly). And yet, blacks riot. You sneeze, blacks riot. Only in liberal, stupid America is this acceptable. A crazy man attacked MSU – who was BLACK. but CNN can’t even say that. White lives matter but no rioting by any whites. Why do you think that is? it’s because ALL LIVES MATTER. Rioting is NOT acceptable. .
David Ray says
Some whites do riot.
They’re the Marxist AntiFa street-trash that riot hand & glove with Marxist BLM street-trash.
Steve says
Good thing they took down antifa Ashley Babbit
Lightbringer says
Looks like you forgot the (sarc) label. Someone didn’t get it.
Robert O'Donnell says
Unfortunately FP has a ridiculously low character limit to responses, so I can only post a very limited autopsy report. After numerous trials I was able to post this.
III. No life-threatening injuries identified
VI. Toxicology (see attached report for full details; testing
performed on antemortem blood specimens collected 5/25/20 at
9:00 p.m. at HHC and on postmortem urine)
A. Blood drug and novel psychoactive substances screens:
1. Fentanyl 11 ng/mL
2. Norfentanyl 5.6 ng/mL
3. 4-ANPP 0.65 ng/mL
4. Methamphetamine 19 ng/mL
5. 11-Hydroxy Delta-9 THC 1.2 ng/mL;
Delta-9 Carboxy THC 42 ng/mL; Delta-9 THC 2.9 ng/mL
6. Cotinine positive
C. Urine drug screen: presumptive positive for cannabinoids,
amphetamines, and fentanyl/metabolite
D. Urine drug screen confirmation: morphine (free) 86 ng/mL
David Ray says
Too bad that a fatal drug overdose doesn’t pop on camera. (Emotionally laden idiots saw what looked bad, and, by God, that was enough!)
Too bad that Floyd’s brutal assault on a pregnant woman wasn’t on camera.
The irony is that if it had been videoed, leftist morons wouldn’t care. They’d still have built all those statues & murals in honor of that sleazebag.
bill says
Floyd brought this demise on himself. He was a very large man with a reputation for violence, a rap-sheet as long as your arm and a frequent flyer in prison and jail. He was resisting arrest, fighting with the officers for twenty minutes as these same officers tried talking to him into cooperating. He was a thug with a penchant for violent behavior. One of his many atrocities was holding a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly, threatening to kill her unborn child while his accomplices ransacked her home for items to steal. He was captured later driving away in the getaway car.
His airway was never compromised because the officer’s knee was on Floyd’s upper back between the scapulae, not his neck. If one watches the video it’s totally apparent. He did not die from asphyxiation as three independent autopsies have shown. Those same autopsy reports proved he had methamphetamine, fentanyl, marijuana and alcohol in his blood-stream. The conclusion was the substances in his system coupled with the adrenalin because of his combativeness gave him system failure.
Finally, he was breaking many federal and state laws at the time. One of those was passing counterfeit bills. The guy was a thug and killed himself in a manner of speaking. He was certainly not the big teddy-bear as the lying media’s narrative is spewing out.
MikeMarkCA says
Sorry, Big George had enough fentanyl and meth is his system to kill a horse, THAT is just fact.
Mike Beadel says
It wasn’t a lie he was a drug addict and died of heart failure.
Chas Brand says
Floyd died of a great overdose of a variety of drugs … READ THE AUTOPSY !!!!
David Ray says
Reading compression isn’t a leftist thing, as it’d involve rational thought.
(However, lying as casually as they breathe is their biggest talent by far.)
Andrew Blackadder says
Your saint Floyd jive is seriously out of touch with reality as Georgie BOY was screaming he cant breath while still inside his Car due to the FACT that he swallowed all the dope in his pockets causing serious heart palpitations and he refused to do what the Police Officers repeated ASKED him to do.
He was being questioned about the fake $20 Bill he tried to pass in the Store, which was owned by an Arab family.
The Cops should have just thrown that THUG into the back of the Police Car in the first place and this entire mess would have been avoided.
So Mickorn, babe, you need some real facts that don’t hurt your wee feeelings while you run off to your safe space and have a good cry because a two bit thug got busted.
Why would you defend such a person who has lead a life of crime?…
Is that what you aspire to be when you grow up?.
David Ray says
To be fair to that idiot Mickorn, A.G. Keith Ellison deliberately withheld that portion of the police body cam footage.
The activist weasel did it to help fuel the riots.
(There was a black woman beaten by a legal authority – that being Ellison himself. I guess he thought her black life didn’t matter as much.)
Lightbringer says
At one point early in the footage that did not pop up on everybody’s Telescreen, an officer asked Floyd, “Did you take something?” Floyd replied, in typically lying fashion, “No, I didn’t take nothing.” If he had not lied so reflexively, the officer could have administered Narcan and saved his worthless life, but he himself chose not to think of that.
Brian Ozzy says
The evidence is obvious Mickorn. If you bothered to educate yourself you would know that Floyd was a low life vicious thug. He is on video admitting he’d been “hooping”, shoving fentanyl up his anus, to the cops in-between blubbering for his momma and complaining (for a long time) that he couldn’t breath, way before the cop gently knelt on the side of his neck., By the way that doesn’t restrict breathing. Try it! Don’t accuse people of lying when it is your ignorance and trust in the fake MSM that colours your beliefs.
Beez says
Beez says
He died of heart failure induced by lethal amounts of fentanyl and methamphetamine in his bloodstream.
Officer Chauvin held his foot on the BACK and SIDE of Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes. Floyd couldn’t have died of asphyxiation or strangulation because Chauvin’ never placed his foot on Floyd’s THROAT. Floyd was hollering, “I can’t breathe” as he sat in his car before the cops pulled him out. He continued to holler, “I can’t breathe” before he fell to the pavement.
Welldoneson says
Floyd died of fentanyl poisoning, as the original autopsy showed. The family paid for another autopsy which, surprise, surprise, found that he died from suffocation. Don’t forget, he was already under arrest and was battling the cops. A crowd of fools gathered, keeping any medical help from arriving. The appeal will overturn the heinously wrong verdict. WATCH.
You’re a dupe.
You’re a dupe.
You’re a dupe.
Charles Casaburi says
George Floyd was a serial women abuser with long rap sheet. He was a degenerate pos & the police did the world a favor killing him. He was stopped because he violated his parole by being around his last victim.
I want my country back! says
Yet Fentanyl seems to kill everyone else except George Floyd. He told the police he couldn’t breathe before he was face down in the street. The fentanyl was shutting down his respiratory system before he was even placed in the backseat of the police cruiser.
Dave says
Looks like you didn’t read the autopsy or toxicology reports and are talking from an orifice lower than your mouth.
jakester says
Still doesn’t mean these rioting lowlifes in NYC deserve a nickel
CowboyUp says
Nothing the police did to career criminal floyd killed him, he OD’s on Fentanyl. “Stop Lying,” as you say. Now what about these FTP looters and rioters, and that Ahole Amin Husain? What do you say to that guy that successfully defended his business against armed looters only to get hauled away by the police and his business looted and burned? What about all those small business owners who lost their livelihoods and now have to pay the very Aholes who did it? Go ahead korn, excuse or defend it. Don’t deflect and hide behind your floyd was murdered BS., address the point of the article, if you can.
wakeup says
Did you see the angle where the knee is clearly on his shoulder blade?
Herbert Woodbury says
Why can’t I down vote this stupid post???
Algorithmic Analyst says
Leninist tactics of stirring up riots to foment revolution.
Mo de Profit says
The $6M will be in the hands of drug cartels within a month.
FDTS says
Within a month? More likely the same day.
David Ray says
I thought the littlebitch Fauci said it was OK to collect in groups without masks as long as it was for a good cause – rioting & burning.
Any rioting scum who make the mistake of approaching my house or truck, will find out that masks are the least of their concern.
Dana F Harbaugh says
Who’s gonna talk about the self-feeding extortion loop known as DEI? The Left figured out how to monetize their Marxist revolution thru guilt trips and threats of urban violence. And POTUS just mandated it.
Daniel Greenfield says
Political commissars everywhere watching everything you say will finally fix racism.
J.J. Sefton says
Given that much of the judicial system and of course law enforcement at local and national levels supports or at least looks the other way at Antifa and BLM, it was not so much a “payout” as a “payoff.”
Antifa and BLM are only as powerful as their allies in the (anti-) American Left and Deep State want them to be. Right now, they are essentially the Democrat Party’s Brownshirts. At some point, there may be the equivalent of a Night of the Long Knives. And that means that America has been completely overthrown.
Steven Brizel says
NYC should not pss as y a cent of blackmail to these radical thugs
Noah Andeark says
NY taxpayers deserve what they’ve voted for. I’m all for them paying the rioters. It’s who they are, it’s what they do.
Annie45 says
To recap: BLM destroys massive property and wounds hundreds
of people. The media and NYC government really downplays
this. And they offer piddling compensation to victims – while
a) making BLM the victims and b) offering YUGE compensation
to BLM.
That is so evil.
Especially since we already know that state and local governments
throughout the United States are kid-glove coddling the rampaging
fiends of BLM whenever they decide to “protest”. That is so terrifying.
It’s not appearing likely that if NYC ever does find that 850 million
dollars that de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane Mc Cray, got away with not
accounting for – that they would use some of it to help the real
victims of BLM riots.
The Big Apple is rotten to the core.
Daniel Greenfield says
This is state of play in blue cities.
The rioters are the party’s activist base.
This was a basic truth republicans failed to convey to Americans in 2020
Now we’re paying the price
Mo de Profit says
I’ve been working in London this past week and it seems that every single city everywhere is as bad.
Savage and uncivilised, sick and perverted is about the only words that describe the place.
I’m sure glad to be home in a civilised small town.
commonsense says
Daniel, the New York Post’s coverage of this event did mention that the rioters belonged to “F- the Police.” I skimmed the article while in my local supermarket, but did not read it in its entirety.
Daniel Greenfield says
Good that they did..
Hope that they also mentioned the FTP violence and links to Decolonize this Place
rocco barbella says
Every study including the gold standard “Cochrane Review on Masking” shows masking did not stop the spread of a virus.
Yet, rioters and law breakers get to sue NYC and collect millions, while the business owners get crumbs?
How much more does NYC need to hit rock bottom until it starts electing sane politicians with a backbone?
I’m curious how much tourism has fallen in NYC? Anyone know? I used to go back and stay in NYC almost every year for long weekends. I haven’t been back in years, and won’t give them my business.
Daniel Greenfield says
Last time I was there it was tense and broken, reeked of the 70s with fear hanging over everyone
Tourism feels more local but who’s gonna elect same politicians?
The old white working class is mostly gone. It’s a third world city. Adams won by mastering demographics.
Palmer_in_NC says
This is how money is laundered back to the Democrat Party and State. BLM gets $6 million. A percentage of this is (“wink wink”) expected to be contributed back to the apparatus.
They are using OUR MONEY for this. Leftist organizations are strengthened, votes are bought…and the State feeds itself.
Daniel Greenfield says
That’s what half of spending at various levels of government is
It’s why most of the money on projects goes to outside consultants
Lightbringer says
Don’t you care about Leviathan, Daniel? What about its pitiful, big-eyed children? If Leviathan isn’t fed its children will starve! How can you be so heartless? Think of the children!
Lightbringer says
(That should have been followed by //sarc//.)
Steven Brizel says
Can you post a link to the lawsuit and the proposed settlement agreement?
Steve Chavez says
NO MENTION OF THE ACLU AND NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD? They’re the reason they got this money!
As an expert on protests, representatives are sent to every major/over a hundred with publicity and cameras there, to ensure the Rights of Protesters are not infringed upon. They’ll put the Authorities UNDER AN ELECTRON MICROSCOPE looking for any bad microscopic cell to then blow it out of proportion. MANY TIMES, that’s why these Peaceful Protesters are given room to destroy, plus nothing is done to them because city and state leaders SUPPORT MOB RULE, LYNCH MOBS, MOB JUSTICE!
The Rule of Protesters and Counter-Protesters used to be a 100 FOOT BARRIER/BUFFER ZONE between them. When the Charlotte protest was being planned, THE ACLU sued the city and state to change the buffer to THREE FEET! THAT’S MATCHES AND GASOLINE and one spark would set off a fire, AND IT DID!
The LEFTIST MOBS were throwing urine and feces-filled balloons. Using clubs, pepper spray, and plastic bottled filled with concrete. POLICE “STAND DOWN!” The Fire!
Tomi Lahren speech ended after 20 minutes at UNM due to MOBS setting off fire alarms, putting holes in the walls and they kicked and punched them. Police pushed. WAS THE ACLU THERE to ensure the Right of FREE SPEECH? How about for David Horowitz speeches? Please come to UNM!
Daniel Greenfield says
You’re right. The ACLU and NLG and policing rules are important context, but there’s only so much room in the article and I focused on dismantling the myth that these were peaceful protests
Dr2xFour says
How much cowardice does it take to destroy
A country?
A people?
A history?
A child?
We are drowning in a sea of it.
Lightbringer says
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not a traitor – He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation – he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city – he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.”
Cicero
Spurwing Plover says
America needs serious tort reform to end stupid lawsuits like this and ban radical groups like BLM & Antifa Etc. from filing stupid lawsuits
Daniel Greenfield says
Absolutely true.
Kynarion Hellenis says
Agreed. The lawyers hired by Gaige Grosskreutz need to be heavily fined for bringing a frivolous lawsuit. And pay Rittenhouse’s filing, attorney and court expenses.
Laurence Jarvik says
Sue and settle shakedown or court judgement? Who’s responsible?
D. Palmer says
Let’s not forget the prepositioned pallets of bricks that mysteriously happened to be placed nearby. No construction was being done. Just pallets of bricks, ready for anyone to grab one. There must be video of trucks delivering these pallets, right? Or did all that video disappear, like the ‘broken’ cameras watching over Jeff Epstein?
NYC is mentally ill, as is the court that agreed to this.
Steven Brizel says
https://ecf.nysd.uscourts.gov/doc1/127132912832 This is the settlement agreement-I am shocked that noone has moved to intervene to challenge this exercise in legal blackmail of the NYPD by thuigs.If Adams agrees to this , any claim of Adams that he supports the NYPD and law and order should not be taken at face value
Daniel Greenfield says
Always easier to pay out. It’s not Adams’ money anyway. And he’s just managing the decline, trying to do some policing without offending the Left while dreaming foolishly of the White House
Steven Brizel says
This settlement agreement is a disgrace
Justin Swingle says
Black Murders Matter
The police are too afraid to solve black murders.
March 1, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield 23 Comments
(Copies of I Can’t Breathe: How A Racial Hoax is Killing America, David Horowitz’s book, exposing the crimes of BLM are free with any purchase from the Freedom Center store.)
In the 1960s, 90% of murders were solved. That fell to 75% in 1980, and 60% in 2000. In the year of Black Lives Matter, the homicide clearance rate fell so low that it became a ‘coin flip’
Walter Sieruk says
Regarding the horrendous criminal malice –filled rioting looting violence arson and other wicked kinds of destruction committed by domestic terrorists of BLM ,it’s therefore fitting to note the liberal Democrat US President ,Lyndon B. Johnson had in a speech, rightly , declared” “There is no American right to loot stores, or to burn buildings , or to fire rifles from rooftops . That is crime – and crime must be dealt with forcefully and swiftly, and certainly – under law.”
Lightbringer says
So the old criminal LBJ actually drew the line on non-politicians committing crimes.
Walter Sieruk says
One of the many logic errors of the B.L.M. is that which comes from the Latin called Ad Hominem. That is meaning “to the man.” Many members of B.L.M. seem to believe that because some White police officers might be “racists against Blacks” than all White police officers are “racist against Blacks.” That is a false premise and a false foundation for that specific belief. Therefore, that’s an error of logic. Otherwise known as a logic fallacy.
phil says
Why would you pay these animals that destroy the city $6 million when there were studies that said masks were useless they do not work. No one was exposed to the coronavirus.
Herbert Woodbury says
If they were worried about the virus, why were they in a violent crowd on the street????
Tex the Mockingbird says
The Lawfirms of Vulture, Slug, Snake, Rat, Weasel and Hyena
MyNameIsEarl says
If it were true that America was a White Supremacist nation, then the BLM riots would not have been allowed to happen. On top of that everybody on TV wouldn’t be spouting off with anti-white hatred, and every non-white person would be shipped out of here. BLM gets 6 million for burning down cities while the capitol hill protesters are rotting in the DC Gulag, the justice system in this country is corrupt to the core. As we continue to get invaded by the third world this country will look and act, more and more like the third world.
David Ray says
Excellent point.
(Notice how these pampered fools never protests in communist countries & sure as heII not rushing off to Iran.)
JB says
THE COMMUNISTS ARE WINNING. BLM ARE COMMUNISTS.
WAIT TILL BIDEN DISARMS ONLY WHITES
Angel Jacob says
The regular violent thugs and thieves do what they do. The problem is the government rewarding them for their criminal/terrorist behavior.
Which only proved the government and justice system has been infiltrated by the same low life thugs.
The clean up must start from top to bottom.
TomKat Books says
The drug dealers will do well with all that new money flowing into the hood!
Mommy says
Time for Congress to declare Antifa a Domestic Terrorist Organization, and shut them AND THEIR ENABLERS down for good!
Mo de Profit says
They are being paid by governments across the western world to implement the UN Agenda 2030.
Equity is their goal.
Herbert Woodbury says
No, their goal is poverty for all and the destruction of freedom
David Ray says
I was thinking more along the lines of HUNTING them down for good.
112 says
If you live in New York your taxes pay for evil.
Andreas Schweizer says
Did we just get the whole list of the Soros mercenaries?
That’s fantastic…!
Gamaliel says
Who was the judge?
LAWRENCE EDWARD ADAMS says
Alice beat us to Wonderland. This is even worse than that. As they say “The inmates have taken over the nut house.”
Augie Snyder says
the idea that police didn’t wear masks shouldn’t even hold water because it’s now been proven that masks did/do little to nothing to prevent the spread of covid.
Spurwing Plover says
America needs tort reform and definite shortage of Trial Lawyers
Dr2xFour says
The sum result of the slippery slope.
And we are still sliding.
Spurwing Plover says
America needs serious Tort Reform that prohibits radicals and violent thugs and rioters from suing anybody
Greebo says
Actual science studies have proven that face masks are useless against covid viral transmission so why would police have needed to wear masks? It is not logical or scientific. If these rioters have identified themselves to take money from the taxpayers they attacked, they should be arrested and need to pay for all the damage they inflicted on innocent people. What the H are those people thinking to allow this travesty?