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The “de-fund the police” campaign, launched after the death of George Floyd has finally become a reality – and it is America’s largest Police force that is the progressive sacrifice.That slogan shouted in the parades, shared by BlackLivesMatter and by radical leftists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, becomes reality on Broadway. In the late evening of Tuesday, on the proposal of the democratic Mayor Bill DeBlasio, the city council approved the new budget law.It contains a heavy cut to the budget of the New York Police Department: one billion dollars out of the total six billion that it had, is taken from the police to redistribute it to social services and aid to young people.Protesters pass the time dancing while waiting for city budget vote results. #OccupyCityHallThe gesture of New York follows that of other cities, but it is far more substantial economically. It also happens in a symbolic city: the metropolis where Rudy Giuliani experienced “zero tolerance”, drastically reducing violence compared to the peaks of the seventies and eighties – DeBlasio took them back to those times in his term and half, thusfar.The cut is also justified by the serious budgetary crisis. “9 billion tax revenues disappeared in a flash,” said DeBlasio, describing the economic impact of the lockdown on the municipal budget.The choice to penalize the police, however, is political: it comes after the accusations of racism and violence against African Americans. The public garden in front of the town hall, City Hall Park, has been manned for weeks by a peaceful occupation of young militants, who were able to sing victory last night.DeBlasio killing it— Tim Dillon (@TimJDillon)Among the concessions, DeBlasio canceled an entire course of police cadets, and said the measures would reduce the number of law enforcement officers to 1,160. The day before the mayor had also announced the elimination of a special body of plainclothes cops that were instrumental in Giuliani’s cleansing of the city.The problems, however, are already lurking. Many critics welcomed the vote on the new budget. Among the opposites, voices that represent the African American community have also arisen.“We black people – said city councilman Daneek Miller who represents some of the poorest neighborhoods like Jamaica, Queens – want to be safe, and we want to be respected. We cannot allow people from outside to teach us about the lives of black people and the needs of our community.”The speech was given to the young demonstrators of City Hall Park who made it clear they did not believe the cuts were enough.Many demonstrators feel the budget changes weren’t enough, and some plan on staying camped outside City Hall indefinitely.“We are being gaslit,” said activist Jawanza James Williams. “This movement is about so much more than the $1 billion, and this means they don’t understand what we’re saying.”‘Protesters harassed Corey Johnson’s boyfriend, vandalized apartment’Johnson is the far left NYC Council Speaker leading the movement to defund cops.Now he’s crying because the dog he turned vicious bit him.— John Cardillo (@johncardillo)After another African-American councilman from the Bronx also objected to the cuts to the police. After decades of declining crime and improving security, crime data in New York has increased since the beginning of the year, particularly marked in recent weeks since DeBlasio let the protests take over the city.The police union will try to sabotage de Blasio, with strikes that will only serve to accentuate the sense of insecurity that is beginning to spread. In other cities, from Minneapolis to Seattle to Chicago, murders, shootings and violent crime are also worsening. On the other coast,the Democratic Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, has announced that it will align with the slogan “de-fund the police”. Instead, presidential candidate Joe Biden distanced himself from that idea.Corey Johnson, the progressive city council speaker who has predied over the city’s demise along with Bolshevik Bill DeBlasio, said, “The Council fought hard to get where we are, but I know this is just a starting point, not an ending point. We need to go farther.”That this is allowed daily while Democrats like De Blasio insist there can be no indoor dining, funerals, weddings, gyms, or even outdoor pool usage is spitting in the faces of every person who took politicians’ like him at their word and acted in good faithEND ALL LOCKDOWNS— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton)He added the budget agreement “was negotiated with a focus on police reform, youth services, and achieving equity, particularly for low-income communities of color.”New York City Council Minority Whip Joseph Borelli voted no against the budget cuts and said, “know what we’re doing will create a more violent city.”Borelli added that there were “72 shootings last week alone, and not one shot by [a] NYPD officer.”“We must always have safety and we will in this city, but we are also going to amplify both safety and fairness by reaching our young people more deeply than ever before,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said speaking from a press conference Tuesday. “And that’s what this budget is all about.”Eli 7777 on on Anonymous on on Katwa onJoin 14 other followersbloggers like this:

The “de-fund the police” campaign, launched after the death of George Floyd has finally become a reality – and it is America’s largest Police force that is the progressive sacrifice.That slogan shouted in the parades, shared by BlackLivesMatter and by radical leftists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, becomes reality on Broadway. In the late evening of Tuesday, on the proposal of the democratic Mayor Bill DeBlasio, the city council approved the new budget law.It contains a heavy cut to the budget of the New York Police Department: one billion dollars out of the total six billion that it had,...

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