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oldsoftie

(12,410 posts)
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 09:59 AM Feb 2020

Multiple Arrests Reported At Anti-Police, Anti-MTA Fare Protest Amid Acts Of Subway Vandalism

Source: CBS local

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – There were multiple arrests after protesters gathered at Grand Central before taking to the streets Friday night.

Police struggled to hold back the elbow-to-elbow protesters covering the main floor of Grand Central Terminal.
The group started gathering just after 5 p.m., many wearing masks and carrying anti-police posters. Some tried to hang banners in the terminal, all aiming to disrupt the evening commute.

Three masked members of the protest group could be seen in a Twitter video encouraging people to skip fares, damage turnstiles and engage in a mass sabotage of the MTA, pointing followers toward a demonstration at Grand Central.

The group says it wants to abolish subway fares and get rid of police patrols in the transit system.

Read more: https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/01/31/anti-police-protest/



"abolish subway fares and get rid of police patrols". Yeah, THAT will work just fine!!
Supposedly grown adults. Glad it fizzled out, as these fiascos usually do, without the police having to use a ton of force
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The Mouth

(3,123 posts)
1. Stupid assholes
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 11:13 AM
Feb 2020

Just what we need. making the people NOT using cars more inconvenienced and causing damage that will cost money to repair that could have been used to otherwise help people. And adding to the narrative that "the left" contains just as many violent, immature, worthless jerks as the right.

Good going, you worthless pieces of shit.

Ligyron

(7,592 posts)
2. Should have been doing this at Trump tower if they did it at all.
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 11:26 AM
Feb 2020

Because ending a dictatorial rule is more important than Subway fees.

Besides, their price for the Italian combo was pretty reasonable I thought. That is if you can stomach that crap. I like Jersey Mike's better myself.

sort of, just in case...

NBachers

(17,007 posts)
3. Watch the video- it's the rank 'n' file maintenance workers who'll have to fix all the damage.
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 11:32 AM
Feb 2020

You don't make friends for your "cause" by wrecking peoples' ability to get back and forth between work, school, and home. All those ruined turnstiles will force everyone to be funneled through the ones that work. It'll create longer lines and more frustration.

People are trying to go pick up their kids from school or day care, or get home to take care of them.

Watch the woman who says, "We need more cops on the trains, less muggings, less rapes . . ."

olddad65

(599 posts)
4. Lol this was well thought out. Get rid of the fares and the police patrols
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 12:44 PM
Feb 2020

Then what. Why didn’t just rally to have the subways cease to exist, and then not have a way to get around?

58Sunliner

(4,339 posts)
6. I understand the need for reduced fares, or free depending.
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 01:11 PM
Feb 2020

But it all smacks of people not wanting to be held accountable. I rode the subways and if they get rid of the police presence there will be chaos and abuses galore. Not to mention drug dealing, murder, rape, and theft. Can you imagine the gangs taking over the subway system? And who would want to ride the subway? Who would want to work there?? These people are brain dead. Have they done the math regarding the costs and how the subway is funded? Easy to say our taxes support the subway, but do your taxes pay all the expenses? Is the total budget of the subway system paid only through taxes? Doubtful.

oldsoftie

(12,410 posts)
8. Exactly. I dont know if ANY city transit system operates in the black.
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 03:46 PM
Feb 2020

But thats not what its there for either. Its there to help move people and relieve congestion.
But idiots like this are just looking for something, anything, to start shit about. They are the ultra left that the GOP tries to paint all Democrats as being.

Jedi Guy

(3,171 posts)
10. Once upon a time, the gangs DID rule the subway system in NYC.
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 05:58 PM
Feb 2020

In the 70s and 80s, it was pandemonium down there. Two hundred and fifty (yes, 250) felonies per week. One murder per week. Gangs would commandeer a train. Hell, a 15-year-old kid drove a train for six stops. And then there was the Bernie Goetz shooting incident, as well.

dware

(12,094 posts)
7. What a bunch of fucking morons!!!
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 02:48 PM
Feb 2020

Apparently they didn't think this out too well, if they were hoping to get the people on their side, then they failed miserably.

Jedi Guy

(3,171 posts)
9. Ah yes, the folks who think everything should be free. It's a lovely fantasy.
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 05:53 PM
Feb 2020

Free public transportation. Free university tuition. Free Internet access. What a wonderful world it'd be, if everything we wanted was for free. I know I sure would appreciate free Internet access and free video games, for a start. Maybe free movies and TV too, why not?

Insofar as the desire for zero police presence in the subways, I imagine there are some retired MTA folks who remember what it was like in the 70s and 80s, when gangs like the Satan Souls, Black Attacks, and others ran rampant in the subway system. Sounds like a recipe for another Bernie Goetz shooting. Sure, violent crime is way down since those days, but if the ne'er-do-wells know there are no cops in the subway system, they'll have a field day down there.

What a bunch of whizkids these protesters are.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
13. This has the smell of unrest instigated by Russia via social media.
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 05:40 AM
Feb 2020

I recall the racial unrest in Texas during our 2016 election campaign that was proven to have been designed and executed by Putin's secret Facebook and Twitter trolls. Using their standard techniques, it was done by instigating rage on both sides.

KY......

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