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| DATE | 2016-11-15 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] I'm sure it's a coincidence, part n+1
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Quoting Ruben Safir (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com):
> Whole sections of NYC have been lit up and he laid
> down the safety and good governance that made the gentrification by
> hipsters possible from Bushwick to the Bronx.
Yeah, let's talk about that 'safety and good governance'. Let's talk
about the riot he caused, for example.
On September 16, 1992, he was starting his run for mayor to succeed the
lackluster Dinkins Administration. So, his idea of 'safety and good
governance' was to speak to a rally of hundreds of rowdy police
officers, many of whom had been heavily drinking, protesting Mr.
Dinkins’s proposal for a Civilian Complaint Review Board and his
creation earlier that year of the Mollen Commission, formed to
investigate widespread allegations of misconduct within the NYPD.
Giuliani gave an address the NY Times described as 'fiery', There were
an estimated 10,000 protestors total surrounding the rally proper, of
whom most were off-duty NYPD officers.
Giuliani stood in the middle of the developing chaos, on top of a car, a
block from City Hall, holding a bullhorn and leading the drunken crowd
in chants until the gathering exploded in a literal and very violent
riot. Jimmy Breslin described part of Giuliani's police riot the next
day, in an article in _Newsday_:
The cops held up several of the most crude drawings of Dinkins,
black, performing perverted sex acts, And then, here was one of them
calling across the top of his beer can held to his mouth, 'How did you
like the niggers beating you up in Crown Heights?' Now others began
screaming … 'How do you like what the niggers did to you in Crown
Heights?' 'Now you got a nigger right inside City Hall. How do you
like that? A nigger mayor.' And they put it right out in the sun
yesterday in front of City Hall. We have a police force that is
openly racist....
The Cato Institute report (URL below) goes on:
_Newsday_ reported on other instances of racial abuse. City Councilwoman
Una Clarke, a petite black woman, was blocked from crossing Broadway 'by
a beer-drinking, off-duty police officer who said to his sidekick: 'This
nigger says she’s a member of the City Council.'"
Mary Pinkett, another black councilwoman, was trapped on the Brooklyn
Bridge as her car was rocked back and forth by off-duty officers. The
two elderly passengers in her car were terrified.
Former NYPD officer and New York state senator Eric Adams, currently
serving as Brooklyn’s borough president, told _Newsday_ at the time that
the demonstration was "right out of the 1950s: A drunk, racist lynch mob
storming City Hall and coming in here to get themselves a nigger."
An internal-strategy report (the "Rudolph W. Giuliani Vulnerability
Study") prepared for the candidate’s 1993 mayoral campaign devoted more
than 50 pages to the 1992 police riot under the all-caps heading
"RACIST."
"When dealing with direct questions about the police rally, Giuliani
should acknowledge and criticize the underlying racial nature of the
protest," the study urged.
Giuliani never condemned the overt racism of the 1992 NYPD riot.
Instead, he ordered the vulnerability study _destroyed_, but a copy was
leaked to journalist Wayne Barrett in 2000.
See:
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/rudys-racist-rants-nypd-history-lesson
> This is why I don't listen to you, Rick. Your rants are in the land of
> make believe.
...says the man who's explicitly written off and dismissed the entire
legitimate press as unreliable. You keep telling yourself that.
> Guys like Joel Berger aren't worth shit and never help a single
> individual. Why would NYC spend money to support a moron who's goal
> is to destroy the city?
Actually, the question was: Is it appropriate for the mayor of NYC, as
an act of petty personal revenge over Prof. Joel Berger merely having
exercised his right of free speech (publishing an op-ed piece), having
his aides call NYU and threaten to cancel an apprenticeship program the
city ran with NYU unless the school fired Berger from the NYC course he
was teaching?
Giuliani _wasn't_ trying to avoid spending NYC money on Berger. He was
threatening to end an unrelated NYC-funded apprenticeship program unless
NYU agreed to cease spending its _own_ money on having Berger as an
employee.
You found it convenient to misrepresent what I said. Perhaps you
thought I wouldn't notice? Sorry, Ruben, I'm not an idiot. And I can
also spell 'Giuliani' and 'Reuters'. ;->
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