After NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch agreed to work in his administration, the mayor-elect has gotten cagey on disbanding the SRG, scrapping the gang database, and giving the CCRB the final say in police discipline.
He was also asked directly if police would stop ICE raids and responded that they wouldn’t be instructed to help them. The weasel word bullshit is maddening, especially when people fall for it
Despite how cool it would be, wouldn’t ordering the NYPD to apprehend ICE agents be a direct act of sedition aka grounds for the military to invade the city?
People are gonna protect their own heads first no matter their politics.
When cops show up between ice and protestors, we know who they’re protecting. LAPD are technically “not assisting” ICE, but they sure as hell when they stand by, hands on holsters, while people are snatched off the streets
He was also asked directly if police would stop ICE raids and responded that they wouldn’t be instructed to help them. The weasel word bullshit is maddening, especially when people fall for it
Despite how cool it would be, wouldn’t ordering the NYPD to apprehend ICE agents be a direct act of sedition aka grounds for the military to invade the city?
People are gonna protect their own heads first no matter their politics.
That particular part doesn’t strike me as weasel wording. There’s a world of difference between:
When cops show up between ice and protestors, we know who they’re protecting. LAPD are technically “not assisting” ICE, but they sure as hell when they stand by, hands on holsters, while people are snatched off the streets