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Jake Offenhartz
@jangelooff
NYC reporter @AP | formerly Gothamist, WNYC | proud @APNewsGuild member | send mail to joffenhartz at ap dot org
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Jan 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Listening to irate New York hedge fund billionaire Leon Cooperman on CNBC right now lamenting people "sitting at home getting their checks from the government, trading their stocks."

“This fair share is a bullshit concept," he shouts. "It’s a way of attacking wealthy people." Image "At the end of the day, the stock market reflects economic progress or lack thereof," Cooperman says. "This too shall pass."

The gulf between CNBC and Twitter is absolutely wild right now.
Nov 7, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Washington Square Park not waiting for the AP call About two minutes after this 5 cops walked into the crowd, assessed the scene, and turned back
Nov 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Brian Lehrer describes police violence this week, and asks @NYCMayor: Do you acknowledge that those things happened and say the NYPD acted wrongly?

"I don’t have information that tells me that."

De Blasio has this info because his press secretary witnessed it. He's lying, again "You have to take a stronger stance," begs a caller, describing unprovoked attack by police.

But @NYCMayor is wholly incapable of acknowledging that police have attacked peaceful protesters, time and time again. "The videos often are inconclusive."
Nov 4, 2020 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
At the Count Every Vote demo at Bryant Park, @lsarsour urges: “Let’s stay in the street, regardless of the outcome of this election.” March arrives in Washington Square Park, where they’re greeted by hundreds of cops and a constellation of police helicopters. Two NYU freshmen said the sound of choppers kept them up all night
Oct 8, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Heschy Tischler, the right wing radio host leading the Orthodox anti lockdown protests, is greeted in Borough Park to a hero’s welcome. Children standing on light poles try to get a glimpse. Older men jostling for selfies. Heschy declines a supporter’s offer of a mask NYPD agrees to block off a portion of 13th Avenue for tonight’s event. Trump and Thin Blue Line flags abound
Jul 15, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
A few hundred law enforcement supporters have joined religious groups for a march toward City Hall. Many seem to be current or former NYPD NYPD officers just violently arrest about a dozen protesters who’d linked arms to block the police march across Brooklyn Bridge. Members of community affairs unit who made arrests were just marching alongside pro police group
Jul 8, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Tenants in Crown Heights say their landlord just attempted an illegal eviction. A group led by @EqualFlatbush is now occupying the steps, with landlord inside Two cops just showed up, apprently called by landlord. Crowd chews them out for not wearing masks. They’re now inside with landlord
Jun 4, 2020 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
I’m in the Bronx tonight for #FTP4 — the first #GeorgeFloydNYC protest organized by @decolonize_this. Dozens of cops on every corner, stationed on a roof, circling in armor on bikes. Bronxites for NYPD Accountability Co-Founder Shannon Jones says @NYCMayor is culpable: “These are Democrats fucking up your lives. We already got bamboozled by the biracial kid. We fucked up on that one....but fool me once.”
Jun 2, 2020 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
Good evening from Central Park South, where several thousands have taken the street, chanting “Fuck your curfew/suck my dick.” Follow @sydneyp1234 and @GwynneFitz for more updates from Day Six in NYC MTA bus drivers gotta be the most consistently supportive group of non-protesters that I’ve seen
Jun 1, 2020 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Eavesdropped on white shirts debriefing the unplanned kneel, clearly nervous about it

“Only 4 of us kneeled,” says Chief Robert Cattani. “Like anything on social media it’s either going to make or break us.”

Deputy Inspector Hellman: “I already had a rap scandal, now this” Regarding this video. Also Inspector McGinn, first to kneel, says into a phone: “they did it in Queens...I mean if it stops the riots.”
May 31, 2020 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
A couple hundred people at Barclays Center now, listening to Lulu Tolulope, 21, of East New York. “The police needs to change their interaction with the community, period. They get so hyped by the power behind the badge, they forget that they’re talking to actual people. Mister Softee driver just rolled by blaring “Imagine,” gets buzzed by police van