The NYPD press office didn’t return a request for comment, but Amaris Cockfield, a spokeswoman for Mayor Adams, said the department’s response was appropriate while reiterating the mayor’s position that “outside agitators” were responsible for escalating the campus protests.
John Oliver just ripped down all those bullshit talking points btw…
Like the whole “same tent” thing is because we live in a dystopia and everyone bought the first result for “cheap tent” on Amazon…
Adams also made the bike locks sound like terrorist equipment no one can just buy, but Columbia’s own website sells them to students at a discount.
Either Adams is more of an idiot than I thought and didn’t spend a single second looking into shit, or he knows what he’s doing and is even shittier than I thought
But no one should expect Adams to hold NYPD accountable. Once a corrupt cop, always a corrupt cop.
But no one should expect Adams to hold NYPD accountable. Once a corrupt cop, always a corrupt cop.
This is the bottom line, and it’s (one reason) why nothing will happen.
The reason nothing will change is moderate Dems and Republicans will never get money out of politics, because they’re all taking dirty money.
That’s how they keep getting elected.
Google “Eric Adams donors” and every result is a new article talking about how violated campaign laws or old ones talking about how amazing he is for raising so much money
But the Dem party aren’t going to make a peep about it, despite Adam’s being our own George Santos. Because the people running the NY Dem party are just as corrupt as the average Republican.
They fought tooth and nail to keep Cuomo, then told us it was fixed when his own people replaced him. Shit didn’t change, just the face
All that is true, but who votes for a cop as mayor in nyc on the heels of 2020? I lay a little of this on the NYC voters.
Then you don’t understand a large part of our problem with our politicians is money in primaries and state/national parties heavily influencing the results.
AIPAC in general throws as much at primaries as general elections these days.
And it’s very hard to fight dirty money in a primary with only clean money.
The Democratic party can’t fix general elections, but it could fix it’s own primaries if it wanted to.
Add that all major NY media outlets, including NYT and the New York Compost ran a coordinated 24/7 fraudulent “crime is out of control and only a cop can save us” campaign during the primaries even though crime had been going down for several years and it’s almost a foregone conclusion in a city so oversaturated with billionaire-owned media…
Yeah, I hate how people act like primaries are fair, money in politics aren’t an issue, and the party doesn’t play favorites.
The main thing the party does is gather donations, the more someone bundles, the higher position in the party they get. So the people at the top are always going to favor candidates that also bring in the most money.
Rather than focus on getting Dems in office, they just chase donations.
The party won’t fix itself, and voters are running out of time to have any influence in who makes it to the general
Either Adams is more of an idiot than I thought and didn’t spend a single second looking into shit, or he knows what he’s doing and is even shittier than I thought
As a NYer, I legit think it’s the last one. Adams is a piece of shit. He’s an entitled landlord cop posing as a mayor
ACAB but especially the NYPD
And then there’s the gang-filled L.A. police.
