[net-gold] POLICE : LAW: CASES : UNITED STATES: CITIES: NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Is the NYPD Out of Control? New Lawsuit Takes on Bloomberg's 'Private Army'
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- Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 15:07:23 -0400 (EDT)
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POLICE :
LAW: CASES :
UNITED STATES: CITIES: NEW YORK, NEW YORK:
Is the NYPD Out of Control? New Lawsuit
Takes on Bloomberg's 'Private Army'
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Is the NYPD Out of Control? New Lawsuit
Takes on Bloomberg's 'Private Army'
Rodriguez v. Winski calls for the creation of an independent federal
position to oversee the NYPD.
May 4, 2012
By John Knefel
AlterNet /
http://www.alternet.org/rights/155282/is_the_nypd_out_of_
control_new_lawsuit_takes_on_bloomberg's_'private_army'
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/d25s5d4
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When Mayor Michael Bloomberg referred to the NYPD as his private army and
the seventh largest standing army in the world, he managed to provoke
scorn from all but his most slavish admirers. Though his description was
wildly inaccurate regarding the size of the department, his overall
Putin-esque characterization of the cops as a extra-municipal tool to be
deployed at his whim struck many as remarkably and accidentally honest.
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Bloomberg does deserve some credit for managing to hoodwink a large number
of New Yorkers into believing he's some sort of benevolent technocrat
instead of the corporate oligarch he so clearly is. But when it comes to
handling Occupy, Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and the NYPD
at large are facing a new level of resistance.
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Fifteen plaintiffs, including five elected officials, members of the
press, an Iraq war veteran, and Occupy Wall Street activists are suing the
city in federal court, alleging gross misconduct ranging from false arrest
and imprisonment to possible conspiracy between the police department and
JPMorgan Chase to chill citizen's rights to peaceably assemble. The suit
is known as Rodriguez v. Winski and calls for, among other measures, the
creation of an independent federal position to oversee the NYPD. The
department is out of control, the suit alleges, and is incapable of
holding itself accountable.
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I'm also a plaintiff in the case and can testify from first-hand
experience that the NYPD is out of control. This is obviously not news to
the hundreds of thousands of young men of color who are stopped and
frisked by the cops every year, and it's always important to stress that
the kind of suppression a political movement like Occupy faces is both
quantitatively and categorically different than the oppression
marginalized communities face. So the stories laid out below come with the
caveat of police brutality in New York isn't new, but it's crazy and maybe
we can get this under control.
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In some ways what makes this lawsuit so extraordinary is the inclusion of
four city council members, one of whom was beaten bloody and arrested by
the police. Ydanis Rodriguez, the lead plaintiff in the case, was
prevented from witnessing the eviction of Liberty Square by the NYPD on
November 15, 2011. Rodriquez represents the 10th Council District in
Manhattan and on the night of the raid he went to Liberty Square to
exercise his right to observe police actions as granted to him by the
council charter. By the end of the night Rodriguez was bloodied and in
police custody, thereby rendering him incapable of fulfilling his duty to
his constituents to act as a monitor.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
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