Anonymous
04/22/2020 12:46
Subject: The police presence in Lincoln Park is going to turn me into a Tea Partier
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s the slow militarization of society.
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That’s a process that hit some communities a decade ago. Why did it take until now for you to realize that or oppose it?
Inner city low income communities of color are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to civil liberties. If you didn’t speak up when militarized cops came after them, who did you think would be left to speak up when militarized cops came for you?
oh shut up
Anonymous
04/22/2020 10:32
Subject: The police presence in Lincoln Park is going to turn me into a Tea Partier
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s the slow militarization of society.
+2
That’s a process that hit some communities a decade ago. Why did it take until now for you to realize that or oppose it?
Inner city low income communities of color are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to civil liberties. If you didn’t speak up when militarized cops came after them, who did you think would be left to speak up when militarized cops came for you?
Anonymous
04/22/2020 10:29
Subject: The police presence in Lincoln Park is going to turn me into a Tea Partier
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why are they in Lincoln Park? I don’t see them policing any other parks.
Because Lincoln Park had such a high rate of non-compliance with the "All Parks are closed order"
They highly educated in that area did not understand that it meant the park was closed (or the rule did not apply to them)
Other parts of the city understood therefore they did not need to patrol the space.
Grant Circle and Sherman Circle are NPS parks with DC jurisdiction and they are full of walkers and bikers every day.
Anonymous
04/22/2020 07:17
Subject: The police presence in Lincoln Park is going to turn me into a Tea Partier
Anonymous wrote:It’s the slow militarization of society.
+2
Anonymous
04/21/2020 11:46
Subject: The police presence in Lincoln Park is going to turn me into a Tea Partier
Welfare checks on elderly and disabled, telling people to spread the F out at restaurant pickup cites, asking whether groups live in the same household and telling them to disperse if not and leaving them alone if they are (people are in their rights to refuse to answer but worth trying), handing out disposable masks to people without them who want them. Heaven forbid some traffic control on the people who are using this as an opportunity to drag race. Just some ideas.
Anonymous
04/21/2020 11:26
Subject: The police presence in Lincoln Park is going to turn me into a Tea Partier
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You can walk thru the park, but you can't sit down and/or congregate. Seems like an easy enough set of rules to understand.
The park is there for exercise, not for relaxation or to dawdle away your time.
"You're not allowed to sit in the park" is an easy rule to understand, that's true. It's also easy to understand that it's a rule that doesn't make sense, at least not from a public-health perspective.
Until you become NY. Then you'll all be bitchin about the non conformers.
Anonymous
04/21/2020 11:21
Subject: The police presence in Lincoln Park is going to turn me into a Tea Partier
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not OP but sitting outside far from others is not against the DC order. All it requires is remaining 6' from others not in your household and wiping down any equipment used before and after. There is no requirement to keep moving. Unlike the police and some National Guard specialist I actually am a lawyer and read the darn order. I support the Mayor's order. I don't support law enforcement harassing people for law abiding behavior that has no reasonable relation to public health. Public faith and willingness to abide by the orders is key, and it decreases when law enforcement does stupid stuff like this.
I can think of a million better things for those officers to be doing that would ACTUALLY contribute to fighting coronavirus in DC.
Like what?
Anonymous
04/21/2020 11:04
Subject: The police presence in Lincoln Park is going to turn me into a Tea Partier
Anonymous wrote:You can walk thru the park, but you can't sit down and/or congregate. Seems like an easy enough set of rules to understand.
The park is there for exercise, not for relaxation or to dawdle away your time.
"You're not allowed to sit in the park" is an easy rule to understand, that's true. It's also easy to understand that it's a rule that doesn't make sense, at least not from a public-health perspective.