WATCH THIS. *Hundreds* of NYPD steal subway fare & walk through exit gate. W/o masks to boot. Laughing at bystanders. NYPD tickets or arrests 1000s of mostly Black & brown people for this. Taxpayers pay hundreds of millions for police on subway. 2 systems.
Exactly. Then turn around & accost people who can’t actually afford $2.75. And we spend a fortune to support this wasteful, violent practice instead of just investing in affordable or free fares for those who need them. I’ve been right here. Screaming about this costly injustice.
https://twitter.com/dubweiser718/status/1487571994556223491
Mayor Eric Adam’s wants police “omnipresent.” Here is what policing on subway normally looks like. Exact violence & mayhem on subways. Here, maskless NYPD cops pushed a man out of the subway after he asked them to wear masks. One of so many examples.
This is what you get when you view public health & safety only through a carceral lens: An army of an cops, arrest & cuffs, fingerprints & cages because a single young Black man couldn’t afford $2.75 for a subway ride. What if we: Paid his fare?
https://twitter.com/davidgeorge265/status/1185663095932362752?s=21
“Williams spent countless nights over 2 decades sleeping on the subway. Left him w/ a stack of $50 tickets he has no way to pay off.” We will pay NYPD $494 million in 2020 to police transit instead of investing in affordable housing. nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-mt…
What fare evasion usually looks like. “Officers were pointing guns into the subway. Some yelled in horror as they squeezed together on either end of the car. Adrian kept his hands in the air. “Call my mom,” He told someone. washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10…
I count 5 NYPD grabbing, pushing, & cuffing this man for not obeying social distancing rules because it’s impossible on the Subway platform.
Policing in NYC, like policing around the country, is mostly arresting people for things that shouldn't be crimes at all -- jumping the subway turnstile, drug possession & sale, petit theft/stealing to survive, trespass, mental health issues, poverty, houselessness.
We invest billions literally to hurt people more, exacerbate the underlying public and individual health issues that lead them to take necessary actions that get them arrested & processed instead of addressing the root causes themselves.
Poverty alleviation, quality affordable housing, education, infrastructure, jobs and employment, substance use and mental health programming are endemically underfunded. Funding them instead of police would actually lead to safety and health.
So many responding like this. I know. That NYPD allowed to do this only underscores how outrageous the costly violence they turn around & exact on targeted people & communities for their inability to afford subway fare is. Also: They ALWAYS assault people w/o consequence too.
https://twitter.com/vbagate/status/1487576909257093129
People pointing out that they’re coming from a funeral. People I represented as a public defender arrested were trying to get to jobs, school, court, medical appointments, child care, job interviews, benefits appointments, substance use programs, mandatory probation check ins.
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