The NYC curfew is not about public safety — it is a pretext for police to arrest people when they otherwise would have no justification to do so.
Some of those people are now being handed off to FBI agents for interrogations about their political views. theintercept.com/2020/06/04/fbi…
Some of those people are now being handed off to FBI agents for interrogations about their political views. theintercept.com/2020/06/04/fbi…
Just this week, four men who were arrested in Brooklyn for curfew violations were questioned by the NYPD and FBI about their involvement in protests against police violence.
"We want to know who’s hijacking your movement and making it violent," an FBI agent told one of the men.
"We want to know who’s hijacking your movement and making it violent," an FBI agent told one of the men.
All of this comes on the heels of the attorney general labeling anti-fascists as domestic terrorists.
For more on that, read @natashalennard’s latest theintercept.com/2020/06/02/tru…
For more on that, read @natashalennard’s latest theintercept.com/2020/06/02/tru…
Law enforcement targeting political activity is not new, not by any stretch of the imagination
What is rather remarkable, however, is how casually the city's ostensibly progressive mayor has given the police free rein to arrest whoever they want after a certain hour.
What is rather remarkable, however, is how casually the city's ostensibly progressive mayor has given the police free rein to arrest whoever they want after a certain hour.
This new reality is not only leading to the repression of free speech and political dissent, it's also terrorizing undocumented workers.
See here:
See here:
https://twitter.com/JonathanBlitzer/status/1268913019649757186
As @johnknefel notes, the "bodegas and corner stores are open." The curfew is not about that.
It is instead "designed to criminalize anti-racist protest under the guise of maintaining public order, and that's how it's being implemented." prospect.org/civil-rights/t…
It is instead "designed to criminalize anti-racist protest under the guise of maintaining public order, and that's how it's being implemented." prospect.org/civil-rights/t…
This arrest would have come just hours after we reached out to the NYPD and FBI and published a story about these interviews — they knew the practice was already under fire from civil rights attorneys and proceeded anyway.
Read the thread.
Read the thread.
https://twitter.com/hvanshaw/status/1269030793831157762
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