Showing posts with label protests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protests. Show all posts

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Bill Bratton Using Breathe Right To Get Through Protests, Until Demonstrations Peter Out

Arrogant remarks by NYPD Commissioner shocking the conscious of average New Yorkers

Bratton : I'm breathing easier, thank you very much, because I know that the protests ''will peter out.''

In an interview with The New York Observer, NYPD Police Commissioner William Bratton was asked about the thousands of civil rights activists, who have been taking to the streets to demonstrate in disapproval of a Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict a police officer in the chokehold homicide of an innocent, unarmed man.

“These things to tend to peter out on their own, people get tired of marching around aimlessly,” Commissioner Bratton said yesterday of the large demonstrations, adding “And we’re gonna have a lot of rain tomorrow, and the history of these things is that they don’t go on forever, they tend to peter out on their own.”

“These things to tend to peter out on their own, people get tired of marching around aimlessly,” Commissioner Bratton told The New York Observer.

Reaction on Twitter to Commissioner Bratton's insensitive remarks ranged from dismay to outrage.

Commissioner Bratton is facing calls for his resignation over escalating instances of police misconduct, corruption, brutality, and homicide.

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Friday, January 3, 2014

Stop-and-Frisk Mic Check and Speak Out Protest at Bill de Blasio Inauguration

Stop-and-Frisk Freedom Fighters demonstrate to oppose Bill Bratton's appointment as NYPD commish

Mic check and speak-out by Jose LaSalle. Mr. LaSalle is one of the city's most visible community organizers leading the charge to put pressure on Mayor Bill de Blasio to reconsider his appointment of William Bratton as NYPD commissioner.

Already, activists, including Mr. LaSalle, have led a series of demonstrations against the Bratton appointment, even before the mayor was sworn into office on Wednesday.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

2003 Iraq NYC protests Censorship ?

A Google search for news stories about this string : nyc war protest 2003 (without quotation marks) (which is broad enough to pick up the massive anti-war protest and rally, which took place in New York City on February 15, 2003) turns up no results. Why does Google provide no links to news articles to a simple search for this historical event ?