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Cops Are Scapegoats For the People With Power
“People will not explain what the police do, the context in which they operate, the power they have, the endorsement they have from the highest level of people. The root of this, is that loose cigarette enforcement is a lunatic mission, that no cop ever joined the NYPD to be part of.”
After an officer was indicted for shooting and killing 66-year-old Eleanor Bumpers in 1984, the Times reported that the PBA “suggested that officers in all the city’s boroughs refrain from any action until directed to do so by a higher-ranking supervisor and that in the Bronx and Brooklyn, officers should also await instructions from a prosecutor.” Hundreds of officers sought transfers as a show of solidarity, and to snarl the NYPD’s administration. (A bomb later went off in the PBA’s offices. No one was injured. The indictment against the officer was later dismissed.)
A bomb exploded at the office of the Patrolman's Benevolent Association in lower Manhattan early this morning, the police said, and a group calling itself the Red Guerrilla Defense claimed responsibility, saying the bombing was in protest of the union's support of officers indicted in the deaths of blacks.
The Garner case, for instance, the police should have never even been there in the first place. I mean the guy was selling loose cigarettes... Why is it even a police matter? So I agree with Eugene O’Donnell, it is a lunatic mission.
saying the bombing was in protest of the union's support of officers indicted in the deaths of blacks.
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
saying the bombing was in protest of the union's support of officers indicted in the deaths of blacks.
Someone help me here...
Because this has been written horribly...
Did they blow up whatever because they're not in favour of indicting killer cops?
Because that's what it says...
But that doesn't make sense to me.
If anyone can understand this incoherent paragraph please decode it for me please.
Thanks.
played a recording that said the group planted the bomb to protest ''the P.B.A., which promotes racist murder and killer cops.'' The message mentioned Eleanor Bumpurs and Michael Stewart, two blacks whose deaths resulted in indictments of police officers.