The New York City Police Department is reportedly having to limit the number of retirement applications that it processes on a daily basis due to the overwhelming number of officers who are retiring due to loss of overtime pay and a lack of respect in the current political environment that demonizes police officers.
&#8220;A surge of city cops filing papers during the past week more than quadrupled last year’s number — as the city grapples with a surge of shootings — and the stampede caused a bottleneck that’s forcing others to delay putting in their papers,&#8221; the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/08/nypd-limits-retirement-applications-amid-411-surge-this-week/">reported</a>. &#8220;The astonishing rush for the door came as 503 cops filed for retirement between May 25 — the day George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, sparking anti-cop protests around the country — and July 3, the NYPD said.&#8221;
The Post added that the surge of applications forced the department to limit the number of applications that it can process &#8220;due to cancellation of overtime for the workers who process them.&#8221;
“Apparently, the pension section is only taking a certain amount of people per day and I think they are backed up till late July, early August,” one police officer told the Post. “That’s why you don’t see like 100 a day, because they are only doing like 35 to 40 a day, by appointment.”
A spokeswoman for the NYPD said that the number of police officers who were resigning was “a troubling trend that we are closely monitoring.”
“There’s just droves and droves of people retiring. But there’s no surprise here, who the hell wants to stay on this job?” another police officer told the Post. “Why would you want to stay on this job when people don’t appreciate what you do?”
The Associated Press <a href="https://www.nbc12.com/2020/07/01/nyc-passes-austere-budget-that-cuts-b-nypd/">reported</a> that the NYPD was &#8220;halving overtime spending&#8221; by looking to cut &#8220;nearly $300 million &#8230; in police overtime.&#8221; The AP noted that the NYPD paid out well over $100 million in overtime from the time of George Floyd&#8217;s death in late-May through the start of July because it needed all hands on deck to deal with rioting, looting, and an increase in crime.
The NYPD <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-new-york-police-department-eliminating-anti-crime-unit">announced</a> during mid-June that it was disbanding its plainclothes unit of approximately 600 police officers who blend into the community in an effort to fight crime.
Former New York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir told Fox News last week that the recent actions by the NYPD were going to have a major negative impact on the city.
&#8220;The fact is that the cuts that have been made are going to be real,&#8221; Safir said. &#8220;They may not be &#8230; a billion dollars, but they&#8217;re going to reduce the amount of police officers on the street. Cops are retiring at record numbers. Response time is going to go down.&#8221;
&#8220;You did away with the anti-crime unit, which was 600 plainclothes officers who prevented crime,&#8221; Safir added. &#8220;Uniformed officers respond to crime. Plainclothes officers prevent crimes from happening. So it&#8217;s going to be a much more dangerous city.&#8221;
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Protests Against Police Brutality Over Death Of George Floyd Continue In NYC

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New York Attorney General Letitia James ordered the Black Lives Matter Foundation on Monday to immediately cease and desist soliciting donations from New York. The entity that James ordered to stop soliciting donations is not the same entity as the far-left neo-Marxist Black Lives Matter movement.
&#8220;The foundation, which has no affiliation with the Black Lives Matter Movement, has not registered as a charitable organization in the state of New York, making contributions solicited within the state illegal,&#8221; James&#8217; office said in a statement. &#8220;The Black Lives Matter Foundation has faced increased scrutiny in recent weeks for accepting donations meant for the Black Lives Matter Movement to end police brutality.&#8221;
“Every organization that seeks to solicit donations from New Yorkers must follow state laws,” James <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2020/attorney-general-james-orders-black-lives-matter-foundation-cease-solicitation">said</a> in a statement. “We will also fight for transparency so that donors’ goodwill isn’t preyed upon by opportunists. The Black Lives Matter Foundation failed to register or file any financial documents with the state, and therefore has failed to provide New Yorkers with information on how their donations will be used. That’s why we are taking action by demanding that the foundation stop soliciting contributions from New Yorkers. I encourage all donors to practice due diligence when giving to charities.”
The New York Attorney General&#8217;s office wrote that the Black Lives Matter Foundation was immediately required to:
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<li>Cease soliciting contributions or engaging in any other fundraising activities in New York;</li>
<li>Notify any third parties engaged in solicitation or fundraising activities on its behalf in New York that they must cease such activities, and</li>
<li>File all financial reports as required by law for each year the foundation engaged in charitable solicitation or other fundraising activity in New York.</li>
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BuzzFeed News reported that the organization that James ordered to cease and desist solicitations &#8220;build relationships with police&#8221; and is not the same as the Black Lives Matter movement.
Alexandra Phillips wrote at The Telegraph that the Black Lives Matter movement is a far-left group that seeks to essentially destroy Western society:
<blockquote>BLM happily self-identifies as a neo-Marxist movement with various far left objectives, including defunding the police (an evolution of the Panther position of public open-carry to control the police), to dismantling capitalism and the patriarchal system, disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure, seeking reparations from slavery to redistribute wealth and via various offshoot appeals, to raise money to bail black prisoners awaiting trial. The notion of seizing control of the apportionment of capital, dismantling the frameworks of society and neutralising and undermining law enforcement are not just Marxist, but anarchic.</blockquote>
Black Lives Matter (BLM) founder Patrisse Cullors recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-lives-matter-founder-goal-is-to-remove-trump-reveals-marxist-ideology">admitted</a> that the organization&#8217;s goal is to remove President Donald Trump from office. A recently resurfaced video showed Cullors admitting that the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement are &#8220;trained Marxists.&#8221;
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New York Attorney General Orders Black Lives Matter Foundation To Stop Soliciting Donations. It’s Not What You Think.

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On Tuesday night, in an area demonstrators have set up in lower Manhattan that one sign labeled the “City Hall Autonomous Zone,” one male member of the group, dressed in shorts and what looked like a green skirt, put on a performance “dancing” in front of a line of police officers. During the demonstration, the protester shouted at them, including one epithet hurled at a black police officer: “You’re like a f***ing black Judas!”
As shown in a video posted by Townhall&#8217;s Julio Rosas, the “dancer” yelled, wide-eyed, “Your hairdresser has to go to school for longer than you do. Half of you don’t even have a college education to be out here making demands of other people when you can’t even read a f***ing history book and know where you come from. But you want to sit here and tell me that you&#8217;re educated enough to make demands about s*** you know nothing about.”
Pointing at a black police officer, the protester screamed, &#8220;You should know better. You should f***ing know better. Traitor! Traitor to your f***ing people! You’re like a f***ing black Judas!&#8221;
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Protesters heckled the NYPD officers, including the dancer from above, who called the black officer a traitor to his people and a “fucking black Judas.” <a href="https://t.co/uB63nIExrT">pic.twitter.com/uB63nIExrT</a>
&mdash; Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1278150610567782410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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That was not the only coarse language used by the demonstrators. They also shouted in unison “Suck my d***,” a taunt prompted by one person yelling “NYPD!”
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Crowd near NYC’s CHAZ chants: “NYPD! Suck my dick!” <a href="https://t.co/ZDwwQAE6e4">pic.twitter.com/ZDwwQAE6e4</a>
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One speaker yelled, “The council people of their districts — they’re taking police money. Many of them are taking police money. Voting them out is not enough. Ruin their lives. Ruin their lives,” as the crowd applauded. He continued, “They’re ruining our lives. They’re ruining our families’ lives.&#8221;
He was followed by another speaker ranting, “We’re not gonna let them get away with this. It has gone on for too f***ing long. Like I said, we want at least 50% of that giant budget gone … we want it gone. We don’t want the police.&#8221;
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One speaker at the NYC CHAZ said voting out members of the city council who are not in favor of defunding the NYPD is not enough, “ruin their lives.” <a href="https://t.co/SdAUSBr56T">pic.twitter.com/SdAUSBr56T</a>
&mdash; Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1278067014750343176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, referring to the massive cuts to the New York Police Department budget that have been estimated at anywhere from $1 billion to $1.5 billion, pontificated that the cuts weren’t severe enough, snapping, “Defunding police means defunding police. It does not mean budget tricks or funny math.”
“It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education’s budget so the exact same police remain in schools,” Ocasio-Cortez continued, as noted by the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/30/aoc-says-1-5b-nypd-budget-slash-didnt-go-far-enough/">New York Post</a>.
&#8220;It does not mean counting cuts in overtime as cuts, even as NYPD ignores every attempt by City Council to curb overtime spending and overspends on overtime anyways,&#8221; she added. &#8220;If these reports are accurate, then these proposed ‘cuts’ to the NYPD budget are a disingenuous illusion. This is not a victory. The fight to defund policing continues.&#8221;
New York City Council speaker Corey Johnson echoed Ocasio-Cortez, saying, “To everyone who is disappointed that we did not go further, I want to be very honest and candid: I am disappointed as well,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/nyregion/nypd-budget.html">The New York Times</a> reported.
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WATCH: NY Demonstrator ‘Dances,’ Yells At Black Cop: ‘You’re Like A F***ing Black Judas’

It sounds like a plot we’ve heard before: An unassuming high school teacher built a massive drug empire while eluding the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Except this isn’t the plot to “Breaking Bad.” It’s a real-life crime story out of Buffalo, New York.
Michael Masecchia was an English teacher at Grover Cleveland High School, a father of two, and a football, softball, and soccer coach. He worked in the public school system for more than 30 years. In August 2019, he was arrested – to the surprise of the community.
The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-michael-masecchia-a-buffalo-high-school-teacher-with-mob-ties-allegedly-bribed-a-dea-agent">reported</a> that Masecchia was arrested “on federal drug charges—after authorities raided his two-story Williamsville home to find a large cache of guns, several homemade explosives, and drugs.” Masecchia, the Beast reported, “was accused of growing and selling marijuana for more than 20 years.”
U.S. Attorney James Kennedy, Jr. announced the charges during an August 29, 2019 press conference, saying, “When one is involved in drug trafficking and has a cache of weapons at their ready access including explosive devices—certainly if I’m a parent, I don’t want my kid to be taught by that person.” He then added that the charges against Masecchia were “part of a much larger and ongoing organized crime and public corruption investigation, so stay tuned.”
Flash forward to last week, when the Buffalo community Masecchia called home finally learned what Kennedy meant. Masecchia, the Beast reported, was allegedly working with the mafia and bribed a DEA agent to look the other way while he built his drug empire.
“In a twist worthy of The Sopranos, prosecutors allege former DEA Agent Joseph Bongiovanni blocked several investigations into Masecchia, provided him with information on drug investigations and cooperating sources—and even at times using and selling cocaine—after receiving at least $250,000 in bribes,” the Beast reported.
A <a href="https://redirect.viglink.com/?format=go&amp;jsonp=vglnk_159336318274213&amp;key=b106209c81edb797b7a7b374fa254731&amp;libId=kbz9fyzy0101k4gp000DA22787sht&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fhow-michael-masecchia-a-buffalo-high-school-teacher-with-mob-ties-allegedly-bribed-a-dea-agent&amp;v=1&amp;out=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.documentcloud.org%2Fdocuments%2F6953827%2FUSA-v-Bongiovanni-NEW-Indictment.pdf&amp;ref=https%3A%2F%2Ffeedly.com%2Fi%2Fentry%2FZOqkVHSLZOC9Lu12%2FFVYoJMvRzDe7zCYvJ91pXfSyMY%3D_172fab4a2a8%3A700cf6%3A893158ab&amp;title=How%20Michael%20Masecchia%2C%20a%20Buffalo%20High%20School%20Teacher%20With%20Mob%20Ties%2C%20Allegedly%20Bribed%20a%20DEA%20Agent&amp;txt=37-page%20indictment">37-page indictment</a> filed earlier this month explained that “Masecchia had been a target or subject of several DEA cases during&#8230; Bongiovanni’s venture as a DEA special agent,” but that the teacher was “never arrested or charged in any DEA cases or investigations.”
Bongiovanni was charged last November with accepting bribes to ignore organized crime activity. As the Beast reported, the filing earlier this month was the first he was linked to Masecchia.
The men were allegedly connected to La Cosa Nostra, a Sicilian Mafia that has operated in the U.S. for the past century.
Masecchia’s attorney, Terrence M. Connors, told the Beast that his client “is not now nor has he ever been, as the government alleges, a member of ‘Italian Organized Crime’ if, in fact, that designation even exists.”
Bongiovanni’s attorney <a href="https://redirect.viglink.com/?format=go&amp;jsonp=vglnk_159336344152716&amp;key=b106209c81edb797b7a7b374fa254731&amp;libId=kbz9fyzy0101k4gp000DA22787sht&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fhow-michael-masecchia-a-buffalo-high-school-teacher-with-mob-ties-allegedly-bribed-a-dea-agent&amp;v=1&amp;out=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wkbw.com%2Fnews%2Flocal-news%2Findictment-links-alleged-drug-dealer-dea-agent-accused-of-taking-bribes&amp;ref=https%3A%2F%2Ffeedly.com%2Fi%2Fentry%2FZOqkVHSLZOC9Lu12%2FFVYoJMvRzDe7zCYvJ91pXfSyMY%3D_172fab4a2a8%3A700cf6%3A893158ab&amp;title=How%20Michael%20Masecchia%2C%20a%20Buffalo%20High%20School%20Teacher%20With%20Mob%20Ties%2C%20Allegedly%20Bribed%20a%20DEA%20Agent&amp;txt=told%20WHBW">told</a> WHBW that the latest indictment “doesn’t change much as far as we’re concerned,” and that his client “still professes his innocence and we look forward to defending him at trial.”
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High School Teacher Worked With Mafia, Bribed DEA For Decades In Drug Trafficking Scheme

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[UPDATE] This article has been updated with a quote from the Engel campaign stating in part that it is “premature” to declare a winner in the race.
Left-wing candidate Jamaal Bowman has declared victory in his primary challenge against Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY), the establishment-backed chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who has served in Congress since 1989.
“I’m a Black man who was raised by a single mother in a housing project. That story doesn’t usually end in Congress. But today, that 11-year old boy who was beaten by police is about to be your next Representative,” Bowman tweeted on Wednesday morning. “I cannot wait to get to Washington and cause problems for the people maintaining the status quo.”
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I’m a Black man raised by a single mother in a housing project. That story doesn’t usually end in Congress.
But today, that 11-year old boy beaten by police is about to be your Representative.
I can&#8217;t wait to get to DC and cause problems for those maintaining the status quo. <a href="https://t.co/ijaWpkcxvc">pic.twitter.com/ijaWpkcxvc</a>
— Jamaal Bowman (@JamaalBowmanNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamaalBowmanNY/status/1275818466667307009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
While the official results of the race are not yet known, Bowman’s statement was released after Cook Political Report editor Dave Wasserman called the race in Bowman’s favor, and argued that Engel’s vote tally deficit was too substantial to overcome through incoming absentee ballots.
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I’ve seen enough: Jamaal Bowman (D) has defeated 16-term Rep. Eliot Engel (D) in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NY16?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NY16</a> primary.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) <a href="https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1275803793192615943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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I should clarify, these are not official, final results. These are results from official sources (NYC/Westchester BOEs). Still tens of thousands of absentees to count and possible margin will narrow, even if the outcome is not in doubt.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) <a href="https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1275807832189939714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
The Engel campaign has called any attempts to declare a winner in the election as undermining of the democratic process, reports Spectrum News 1 New York.
“There are many thousands of absentee ballots that will need to be counted, and that count won’t begin for another six days. Any declarative statement on the outcome of this race right now is premature and undermines the democratic process,” said the Engel campaign, reports <a href="https://twitter.com/emilyngo/status/1275863752127270913">Spectrum News 1</a> New York. 
“Congressman Engel strongly believes that every absentee ballot should be counted, especially during this pandemic,” the statement continued. “In the meantime, the Congressman will continue his work for the people of the Bronx and Westchester.”
Hank Scheinkopf, a New York-based political consultant, told <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-24/engel-teetering-as-progressives-show-strength-in-new-york?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=bd&amp;cmpId=google">Bloomberg News</a> that while he believes that it isn’t impossible for Engel to win if absentee ballots overwhelmingly favor him, “regardless, change is here to stay.”
Over the last few weeks, Engel received <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-hot-mic-moment-democrats-rush-to-save-sixteen-term-rep-from-getting-aocd">high-profile</a> endorsements from Democratic establishment figures, including from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Many of his endorsements came after Engel received heat for a hot mic moment during which he begged an organizer to let him speak at a local event, seemingly so that his constituents – many likely aware of the Atlantic Magazine <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/eliot-engel-new-york-coronavirus/611611/">report</a> claiming that Engel didn’t spend much of his quarantine in his own district, but in Maryland – would actually see him in New York City.
On the other hand, Bowman boasted endorsements from far-left politicians, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), whose 2018 primary upset occurred in the neighboring district, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo again attempted to draw the federal government into a growing state-level crisis, blaming the Trump administration for both ordering nursing homes and other adult care facilities to take patients suffering from the novel coronavirus and for obscuring the virus&#8217; origins.
The White House was not having it, directing criticism back at Cuomo and his own state policies that failed to ensure coronavirus patients were entering facilities that were secure and where they would be cordoned off from patients who were COVID-19 negative.
Speaking to MSNBC Tuesday, Cuomo claimed that coronavirus-related nursing home deaths were highest in his state because New York suffered the most coronavirus deaths overall &#8212; but also because the Trump administration insisted on claiming that the virus originated in China when it was actually coming from Europe.
&#8220;Yes, we had more people die in nursing homes than anywhere else, because we had more people die,&#8221; Cuomo contended. &#8220;Because the federal government missed the boat and never told us this virus was coming from Europe and not from China.&#8221;
&#8220;And in January, in February, March, before they did the European travel ban, three million people came from Europe and brought the virus to New York, uh, and the federal government didn&#8217;t know, and the federal government didn&#8217;t, the CDC, and all of them failed to handle this pandemic and warn this nation,&#8221; Cuomo rattled on. &#8220;So New York had more cases, and more deaths, and more deaths in nursing homes because that&#8217;s who the virus affects, it affects senior citizens, we know that.&#8221;
Indeed, New York suffered from a unique strain of the virus that developed in Europe and migrated to the United States through international travelers, but that has little to do with Cuomo&#8217;s record of nursing home deaths which, <a href="https://apnews.com/5ebc0ad45b73a899efa81f098330204c">according to the Associated Press</a>, account for nearly 50% of all coronavirus-related deaths in New York &#8212; a staggering 4,500 deaths. Other counts put the number as high as 6,250.
Cuomo&#8217;s staff also tried to pin the blame on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which suggested COVID-positive patients could be housed in long-term and adult care facilities if those same facilities could properly quarantine those positive with the virus from the general population.
“I know history shows that if you don’t bend to the president’s will, you’ll get fired, but enough with the lies,” a Cuomo staffer <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/23/cuomo-alone-is-to-blame-for-covid-19-nursing-home-deaths/">said in a statement</a>.
The White House fired back, saying the CDC assumed states ordering overflow patients into adult care facilities would ensure those facilities followed quarantine procedures.
“Governor Cuomo alone is to Blame for refusing to shut down New York and forcing seniors who tested positive for Coronavirus back into his state’s nursing homes. His reckless response did not follow CMS and CDC guidelines devastating the senior population — and no amount of revisionist history can erase Governor Cuomo’s grossly incompetent decision or the fact that President Trump’s bold, aggressive actions saved millions of lives,” a deputy White House press secretary tweeted.
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Top New York Police Department leadership launched an investigation and union officials decried violence against police after three officers were allegedly “poisoned” at a Shake Shack last week.
The incident, however, appears to be much ado about nothing. The three officers, while hospitalized, never fell ill, and management at Shake Shack has convincingly argued that store employees could not have known they were serving police officers, much less tried to poison the officers with bleach, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/22/how-nypd-faked-shake-shack-controversy-and-conspiracy-theory/">the New York Post</a>.
On June 15, a team of police investigators arrived at a Shake Shack in Manhattan and blocked it off with crime tape as agents began investigating whether an employee at the store had intentionally tried to poison three police officers. The investigation wrapped up quickly, and NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison announced later that day that “there was no criminality” by any employees.
The investigation, in hindsight, appears to be a severe overreaction after three police officers picked up what they thought were bad milkshakes at the Shake Shack. All three took sips of the shakes, which were ordered online and picked up at the store, and each thought their shakes tasted off. The officers told the manager who apologized and gave each a voucher for free food.
The shakes likely tasted acidic because the milkshake machine had just been cleaned when the officers ordered their shakes and residual milk remover remained on the machine parts. The officers were not aware of that, however, and relayed their experience to their sergeant, who immediately ordered a full investigation into the Shake Shack and sent the three officers to Bellevue Hospital.
After the investigation began, however, police groups were characterizing the incident as an attack on police. The president of the Police Benevolent Association, Pat Lynch, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-nypd-officers-hospitalized-after-consuming-drinks-with-toxic-substance-at-a-shake-shack-reports-say">sent</a> out a statement warning police officers “to carefully inspect any prepared food item they purchase while on duty for possible contamination” and condemning violence against police officers.
“This evening, several MOS assigned to a protest detail in lower Manhattan took a meal at the Shake Shack location on Broadway and Fulton Street. At some point during their meal period, the MOS discovered that a toxic substance, believed to be bleach, had been placed in their beverages,” Lynch said. “The contamination was not discovered until the MOS had already ingested a portion of their beverages. They are currently at the hospital receiving treatment and are expected to recover.”
The Detectives’ Endowment Association (DEA) put out a statement claiming that the officers were “poisoned.”
“Tonight, three of our brothers in blue were intentionally poisoned by one or more workers at the Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan,” The DEA said “After tasting the milkshakes they purchased they became ill, making it necessary for them to go to an area hospital. Fortunately, our fellow officers were not seriously harmed.”
Shake Shack <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shake-shack-responds-to-allegations-that-nypd-was-poisoned-at-restaurant-investigators-release-probe-results">responded</a> to the incident Monday, as well, saying “We are horrified by the reports of police officers injured at our 200 Broadway Shack in Manhattan. We are working with the police in their investigation right now.”
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&#8220;Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed to challenge Chuck Schumer in Senate primary,&#8221; said the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-pushed-chuck-schumer-prim/">Washington Times</a> headline.
The story found a big-time fan: President Trump.
&#8220;Actually, that would be a big improvement &#8211; and she would win!&#8221; Trump wrote Monday on Twitter.
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Actually, that would be a big improvement &#8211; and she would win! <a href="https://t.co/EzmOjNtYJS">https://t.co/EzmOjNtYJS</a>
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The Times said, &#8220;liberals are kicking around the idea that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could launch a 2022 primary challenge against a titan of the Democratic Party establishment: Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer.&#8221;
“Just going to say something out loud that should be obvious: The fastest way to speed up the process of changing the corrupt, do-nothing, status-quo-protecting culture of the national Democratic Party is for @AOC to defeat @ChuckSchumer in a Democratic primary in 2022,” David Sirota, a senior adviser to Sen. Bernard Sanders’ presidential campaign, wrote recently on Twitter.
<blockquote>Ms. Ocascio-Cortez would be a natural fit, so the mere thought of the liberal sensation considering a heavyweight clash with Mr. Schumer is generating buzz about the future of the first-term congresswoman while adding another layer of intrigue to the New York’s primary.</blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez, a former bartender, surprised politicos in 2018 when she knocked of party power broker Joe Crowley in the 14th Congressional District, which includes parts of the Bronx and Queens. Since then, she has built a mini-machine, targeting incumbents she deems not progressive enough and hauling in huge amounts of cash.
The first-term lawmaker is staunchly anti-Trump, which makes his endorsement all the stranger. On Sunday, the democratic socialist from New York took glee in the reported low turnout at President Trump&#8217;s campaign rally on Saturday in Tulsa, saying &#8220;teens on TikTok&#8221; reserved thousands of tickets &#8212; and then didn&#8217;t show up.
“Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign w/fake ticket reservations &amp; tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID,” she wrote in response to a Twitter message by Trump 2020 Campaign chief Brad Parscale.
&#8220;Shout out to Zoomers. Y’all make me so proud,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said.
AOC also thanked fans and &#8220;stans&#8221; of K-Pop,  a genre of music popular in South Korea. &#8220;KPop allies, we see and appreciate your contributions in the fight for justice too,” the congresswoman wrote.
Photos from the event showed parts of the upper tier of Tulsa&#8217;s BOK Center were empty during the rally, despite requests for tickets that Parscale claimed earlier last week topped one million.
Parscale said there was another reason for empty seats. &#8220;Radical protestors, fueled by a week of apocalyptic media coverage, interfered with @realDonaldTrump supporters at the rally. They even blocked access to the metal detectors, preventing people from entering,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter.
Liberal media outlets also gloated about the smaller-than-expected crowd.
&#8220;In the days leading up to Trump&#8217;s rally, he and his allies ginned up expectations for a massive crowd with campaign officials telling CNN that more than a million people had registered to attend, and one local official stating they expected 100,000 to show up near the arena,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/20/politics/tulsa-rally-trump/index.html">CNN</a> wrote.
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The American Museum of Natural History announced that it&#8217;s moving its famed statue of Teddy Roosevelt inside the museum. One Hollywood actor thinks he has the perfect replacement, and it will still be Teddy Roosevelt (sort of).
&#8220;The bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, which has presided over the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History in New York since 1940, is coming down,&#8221; museum president Ellen Futter told The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/arts/design/roosevelt-statue-to-be-removed-from-museum-of-natural-history.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes">New York Times</a>.
&#8220;Over the last few weeks, our museum community has been profoundly moved by the ever-widening movement for racial justice that has emerged after the killing of George Floyd,&#8221; Futter said. &#8220;We have watched as the attention of the world and the country has increasingly turned to statues as powerful and hurtful symbols of systemic racism.&#8221;
&#8220;Simply put,&#8221; said Futter, “the time has come to move it.&#8221;
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I love Teddy Roosevelt. The statue in front of the Museum of Natural History is pretty racist. <a href="https://t.co/iJHGcHcIRn">pic.twitter.com/iJHGcHcIRn</a>
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The eternally aggrieved Times said the statue has &#8220;come to symbolize a painful legacy of colonial expansion and racial discrimination.&#8221;
Enter actor Ben Stiller. He starred in all three of the &#8220;Night At The Museum&#8221; movies along with co-star Robin Williams, who portrayed Roosevelt in the films.
Stiller thinks maybe it&#8217;d be a good idea if the statue honoring the 26th president should be replaced with one of Williams, who committed suicide by hanging himself in 2014 after struggling with Lewy body dementia.
The 54-year-old actor wrote on Twitter: “How about replacing it with a statue of Robin Williams. He deserves one.”
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How about replacing it with a statue of Robin Williams. He deserves one.
&mdash; Ben Stiller (@RedHourBen) <a href="https://twitter.com/RedHourBen/status/1274827610778931203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Response was swift on social media.
&#8220;Better remove &#8216;A Night At The Museum&#8217; from streaming now too, then. My goodness me. We are in big trouble,&#8221; wrote one person on Twitter.
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Better remove &quot;A Night At The Museum&quot; from streaming now too, then. My goodness me. We are in big trouble. <a href="https://t.co/u3XI4yKT2G">https://t.co/u3XI4yKT2G</a>
&mdash; Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewdmarsden/status/1274835255472484352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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It would be much simpler if the culture jihadists just said that every statue depicting a white man must be taken down. <a href="https://t.co/GzLkJ08ISX">https://t.co/GzLkJ08ISX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CULTUREJIHAD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CULTUREJIHAD</a> <a href="https://t.co/DSk0ET0Gi9">pic.twitter.com/DSk0ET0Gi9</a>
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Pls digitally remove Robin Williams from the Night at the Museum franchise next. Kids shouldn’t think TR is a jovial character. Thx.
&mdash; Michael C Moynihan (@mcmoynihan) <a href="https://twitter.com/mcmoynihan/status/1274822207303290881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Stiller was the main actor in the 2006  fantasy-comedy film directed by Shawn Levy called &#8220;Night at the Museum,&#8221; playing the night watchman at the American Museum of Natural History, where animals and people in exhibits come to life at night. Two sequels followed, &#8220;Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian&#8221; in 2009, and &#8220;Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb&#8217; in 2014.&#8221; In the movies, Williams &#8212; as Roosevelt &#8212; helps Stiller&#8217;s character understand the secret behind the exhibits and offers sage advice for his life.
Futter noted that the museum is removing the statue for its “hierarchical composition” and not because of Roosevelt himself, whom the museum notes was “a pioneering conservationist.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed with the museum, calling it &#8220;the right decision and the right time to remove this problematic statue.&#8221;
&#8220;The American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior,&#8221; de Blasio said in a statement. &#8220;The City supports the Museum’s request.&#8221;
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Theodore Roosevelt IV, a great-grandson of the former president and museum trustee, told The New York Times he&#8217;s OK with the statue&#8217;s removal.
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“The composition of the Equestrian Statue does not reflect Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy,” he said in a statement to the newspaper. “It is time to move the statue and move forward.”
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Hollywood Actor: Replace Theodore Roosevelt Statue With One Of Comedian Robin Williams

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Most Recent Update: Attorney General William Barr <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/barr-responds-after-u-s-attorney-issues-anti-resignation-statement">claims</a> that he asked President Donald Trump to fire U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, and that “he has done so.” Berman worked for the Southern District of New York and has reportedly been investigating the president&#8217;s allies, including allegedly Rudy Giuliani. However, speaking with reporters, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/barr-responds-after-u-s-attorney-issues-anti-resignation-statement">said</a>, “I’m not involved.”
Original story:
Late Friday evening, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, who has been investigating President Donald Trump’s allies, would be stepping down. The U.S. attorney, however, said that was not the case.
In a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-nomination-jay-clayton-serve-us-attorney-southern-district">statement</a>, Barr announced that U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman was “stepping down” after introducing Trump’s pick to replace him, Jay Clayton, who currently chairs the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Finally, I thank Geoffrey Berman, who is stepping down after two-and-a-half years of service as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. With tenacity and savvy, Geoff has done an excellent job leading one of our nation’s most significant U.S. Attorney’s Offices, achieving many successes on consequential civil and criminal matters.  I appreciate his service to the Department of Justice and our nation, and I wish him well in the future,” Barr said in the statement.
Shortly after Barr’s <a href="https://twitter.com/SDNYnews/status/1274178732476059650">press release</a>, Berman released a statement of his own saying he was not resigning.
“I learned in a press release from the Attorney General tonight that I was ‘stepping down’ as United States Attorney,” Berman said in his press release. “I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning, my position, to which I was appointed by the Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.”
“I will step down when a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate,” Berman continued. “Until then, our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption. I cherish every day that I work with the men and women of this Office to pursue justice without fear or favor – and intend to ensure that this Office’s important cases continued unimpeded.”
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/nyregion/us-attorney-manhattan-trump.html">reported</a> that “a person familiar with the matter” told the outlet that Barr asked Berman to resign, but he refused.
“The clash over one of the Justice Department’s most prestigious jobs came as the agency had already been roiled by questions over whether Mr. Barr had undercut its tradition of independence from political interference,” the Times reported. “It also raised complicated constitutional and legal questions because of the highly unusual way that Mr. Berman received his job. The president and attorney general can typically dismiss United States attorneys, but Mr. Berman was not ultimately appointed by the Trump administration — he was named by a panel of federal judges.”
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/19/nycs-us-attorney-refuses-to-resign-after-barr-reveals-hes-stepping-down/">added</a> that “Berman’s refusal to resign the position he’s held for two and a half years now sets up a power struggle with the Justice Department over arguably the most prestigious US attorney’s office in the country — the Manhattan-based Southern District of New York — just five months before the presidential election.”
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The New York Police Department announced on Monday that it is disbanding its anti-crime unit, which is a group of 600 officers who wear plainclothes to blend into the community in an effort to fight crime.
&#8220;The NYPD is disbanding its undercover anti-crime unit — after being involved in a &#8216;disproportionate&#8217; number of shootings,&#8221; The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/15/nypd-disbands-anti-crime-unit-after-disproportionate-number-of-shootings/">reported</a>. &#8220;The roughly 600 cops, spread out at precincts and PSAs across the city, will be reassigned into other posts, including the detective bureau and neighborhood police, the city’s top cop said.&#8221;
&#8220;This is 21st-century policing: intelligence, data, ShotSpotter, video, DNA, and building prosecutable cases,&#8221; NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said. &#8220;It continues to be building these cases—cases on a small number of people that unfortunately still terrorize a part of this city. I would consider this in the realm of closing on one of the last chapters on stop, question and frisk.”
&#8220;When you look at the number of anti-crime officers that operate within New York City, and you look at a disproportionate, quite frankly, percentage of complaints and shootings — and they are doing exactly what was asked of them,&#8221; Shea said. &#8220;It will be felt immediately throughout the five district attorney’s offices, it will be felt immediately in the communities that we protect.&#8221;
Shea added, &#8220;This is a policy shift coming from me, personally, in men and women in the police department we’re doing what I asked before me asked, they have done an exceptional job, but again I think it’s time to move forward and change how we police in this city.&#8221;
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The move comes after the death of George Floyd a couple of weeks ago who died in Minneapolis after he was taken into police custody and video of the incident allegedly showed a police officer kneeling on his neck for several minutes while Floyd told the officer that he could not breath.
Leftists have responded by demanding that police departments be defunded across the country while violent rioters have burned down buildings, attacked law enforcement officials, and looted.
The constant demonization of police officers has already started to take a toll on police forces as many are quitting or are looking to quit.
&#8220;I wouldn’t wish this job on my worst enemy,&#8221; Tulsa Police Maj. Travis Yates recently wrote in an op-ed. &#8220;I would never send anyone I cared about into the hell that this profession has become &#8230; I used to talk cops out of leaving the job. Now I’m encouraging them. It’s over, America. You finally did it You aren’t going to have to abolish the police, we won’t be around for it.&#8221;
Yates later told Fox News: &#8220;Officers are afraid to speak out, they are afraid to talk. You are only your next call away from being canceled or destroyed, and so officers feel very limited. I think citizens do, too, and we had just as many citizens comment on that article and send us emails.&#8221;
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo warned Monday that he may be forced to declare a second lockdown after New York residents ventured out to bars and restaurants over the weekend in Manhattan and the Hamptons, even though Cuomo&#8217;s government largely ignored a massive protest that took place in Brooklyn.
Cuomo threatened New Yorkers with a second lockdown in a press conference, The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/world/coronavirus-live-updates.html">New York Times reports</a>, after, Cuomo said, the state was &#8220;deluged&#8221; with more than 25,000 complaints of people flouting social distancing regulations and crowding in businesses.
&#8220;Specifically, Mr. Cuomo said that bar patrons in Manhattan and in the Hamptons had been flouting the rules,&#8221; the NYT says. &#8220;He warned that if local officials did not crack down on such behavior, the state could be forced to suspend the reopening plan.&#8221;
“I am warning today, in a nice way, of the consequences of your actions,&#8221; Cuomo said, referring to bars and restaurants. “We are not kidding around with this. You are talking about jeopardizing people’s lives.”
State officials tried to water down Cuomo&#8217;s comments later Monday after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pushed back on the possibility of another coronavirus-related lockdown and amid news that New York saw fewer new coronavirus deaths over the weekend than it had since March. Only 23 people succumbed to the novel coronavirus Sunday, down from a peak of nearly 800 the first week of April.
The same officials also said that law enforcement officers were working diligently over the weekend to break up large groups and enforce social distancing, though it&#8217;s not clear how either the state or city set its enforcement priorities. While bar patrons crowded together in the Hamptons, earning Cuomo&#8217;s ire, and Jewish schoolchildren took advantage of summer weather to play in city parks, <a href="https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1270336686883389441">earning the city&#8217;s attention</a>, thousands upon thousands of marchers took the streets in Brooklyn, in a &#8220;Black Trans Lives Matter&#8221; protest that was not forced to meet social distancing or masking guidelines.
&#8220;Thousands of protesters — all dressed in white — gathered in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon to rally in support of the black transgender population,&#8221; <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/14/protesters-dress-in-white-for-black-trans-lives-rally-in-brooklyn/">the New York Post reported</a>. &#8220;An enormous sea of people packed outside the Brooklyn Museum for the massive demonstration, according to footage posted to social media by <a href="https://twitter.com/JibreelJalloh/status/1272264465766068224?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@JibreelJalloh</a>.&#8221;
The footage shows people crowded together in front of the Brooklyn Museum and standing shoulder-to-shoulder on public streets.
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From the steps of the Brooklyn museum: everyone who’s showed up for Black trans lives today <a href="https://t.co/htqjF5tWtn">pic.twitter.com/htqjF5tWtn</a>
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The protest was, of course, peaceful.
New York has been holding fast to a number of social distancing regulations, even issuing new bans as recently as last week, including a <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/12/new-york-bans-summer-sleepaway-camps-to-contain-coronavirus/">ban on summer sleepaway camps</a>, despite the risk of transmitting the coronavirus in an environment of mostly children remains low. New York City remains in &#8220;Phase 1&#8221; of the state&#8217;s reopening plan, but other parts of the state are expected to enter &#8220;Phase 3,&#8221; where groups of up to 50 individuals are allowed to gather, as early as Wednesday.
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Cuomo Warns New Yorkers Of Second Lockdown Over Restaurants, Bars, Ignores Massive Brooklyn Protest

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Two Buffalo police officers who pushed a 75-year-old protester before he fell and cracked his head pleaded not guilty to second-degree assault Saturday morning in connection with the incident, reports <a href="https://apnews.com/41148a074e2caa8190926b25a2a940f8">The Associated Press</a>.
Footage of the incident, which went viral on Thursday and has since garnered nearly 80 million views on Twitter, shows the protester, identified as local activist Martin Gugino, approaching the officers around the time of the 8pm curfew. The officers push him backward before he stumbles and hits the back of his head on the pavement.
The graphic footage, attached below, shows blood pooling beneath Gugino’s head as unidentified voices repeatedly shout “he’s bleeding out of his ear.” He was reportedly in serious but stable condition as of Thursday evening, according to <a href="https://buffalonews.com/2020/06/05/protester-pushed-to-ground-by-buffalo-police-is-longtime-peace-activist-from-amherst/">Buffalo News</a>.
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This guy is bleeding from his skull and the police have the nerve to tell the media he “tripped” <a href="https://t.co/WPjvZNAneo">pic.twitter.com/WPjvZNAneo</a>
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Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalsk, two of the officers charged in the incident, were promptly suspended without pay. They turned themselves in to authorities on Saturday morning, and have since been released without bail, reports AP.
“I think there was criminal liability from what I saw on the video,” said Governor Andrew Cuomo during a press conference on Saturday, also remarking, “What we saw was horrendous and disgusting, and I believe, illegal.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/da-investigating-shocking-video-of-buffalo-pd-shoving-old-man-to-the-ground-57-cops-resign-in-solidarity">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, the Buffalo Police Department originally claimed that the man tripped and fell during an encounter, but did not mention that officers pushed him. After the officers were suspended, dozens of other officers resigned from the department’s crowd control unit, a move the union purportedly claimed was in “disgust” with the situation and that the officers were “simply following orders.”
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THREAD: I am told it is the ENTIRE Emergency Reaponse team. The Union tells me it fully understands their “disgust” “These officers were simply following orders given by DPC Joe Gramaglia to clear the Square” <a href="https://twitter.com/WKBW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wkbw</a>
— Hannah Buehler (@HannahBuehler) <a href="https://twitter.com/HannahBuehler/status/1268983378050768896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
However, two officers who spoke to <a href="https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/exclusive-two-buffalo-police-ert-members-say-resignation-was-not-in-solidarity-with-suspended-officers">WKBW</a> on the condition their names not be used have disputed the claim that the resignation was in solidarity, with one mentioning that many resigned because the union said it would no longer pay protest-related legal fees. 
“Why would we stand on a line for the city with no legal backing if something [were to] happen? Has nothing to do with us supporting,” said an officer, reports the news agency. 
“I don’t understand why the union said it’s a thing of solidarity. I think it sends the wrong message that ‘we’re backing our own’ and that’s not the case,” said one officer, reports the news agency.
“Some of them probably resigned because they support the officer,” an officer told the news agency. “But, for many of us, that’s not true.”
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Two Officers Who Allegedly Pushed 75-Year-Old Protestor In Viral Video Charged With Assault, Plead Not Guilty

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On Thursday, a shocking video went viral showing riot police in Buffalo, New York, shoving a non-compliant elderly man, causing him to fall back onto his head.
The video, which has now been viewed over 70 million times, caused an uproar on social media, sparking outrage from both liberals and conservatives on the topic of police brutality and training reform.
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This guy is bleeding from his skull and the police have the nerve to tell the media he “tripped” <a href="https://t.co/WPjvZNAneo">pic.twitter.com/WPjvZNAneo</a>
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The man, who has yet-to-be-identified, is a 75-year-old activist who was taken to the hospital after the encounter. He has been listed in serious but stable condition. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said the video was &#8220;utterly disgraceful.&#8221;
&#8220;This incident is wholly unjustified and utterly disgraceful,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve spoken with Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and we agree that the officers involved should be immediately suspended pending a formal investigation,&#8221; said Cuomo. &#8220;Police Officers must enforce — NOT ABUSE — the law.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/da-investigating-buffalo-cops-shove-old-man">Fox News</a>, the District Attorney will be investigating the incident while the two cops remain under suspension without pay.
&#8220;The Erie County District Attorney’s Office announced earlier in the day that it will be investigating an incident in which two Buffalo, New York police officers were caught on camera shoving a septuagenarian to the ground at a protest on police brutality,&#8221; the outlet said.
Initially, the Buffalo Police Department claimed that the man tripped and fell during his encounter with police with no mention that he was shoved. As the controversy heated up on social media, the two officers were suspended. Mayor Byron Brown has since stated he was deeply disturbed by the video.
&#8220;Tonight, after a physical altercation between two separate groups of protesters participating in an illegal demonstration beyond the curfew, two Buffalo Police officers knocked down a 75-year-old man,&#8221; said the mayor. &#8220;The victim is in stable but serious condition at ECMC. I was deeply disturbed by the video, as was Buffalo Police Commissioner Byron Lockwood. He directed an immediate investigation into the matter, and the two officers have been suspended without pay. After days of peaceful protests and several meetings between myself, Police leadership and members of the community, tonight’s event is disheartening.&#8221;
New York Civil Liberties Union in a statement said the video displayed a &#8220;casual cruelty.&#8221;
&#8220;The casual cruelty demonstrated by Buffalo police officers tonight is gut-wrenching and unacceptable.&#8221; Buffalo Chapter Director John Curr said.&#8221;We are in solidarity with Buffalo’s protesters and demand that demonstrators can protest without the threat of police brutality on the streets tomorrow.&#8221;
In response, all 57 officers of the Buffalo Police Department’s Emergency Response Team &#8220;resigned Friday afternoon in support of two police officers who were suspended without pay after shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground during a protest,&#8221; reported Fox News.
&#8220;A police union representative told WKBW that the officers were following orders given to them by Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Gramaglia to clear the area and do not believe they were in the wrong,&#8221; reported the outlet. &#8220;While the members of the emergency response team resigned from their specific roles, they did not resign from the police department altogether and are still employed.&#8221;
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Anti-Trump Rally Near the White House Extends Into Overnight

DA Investigating Shocking Video Of Buffalo PD Shoving Old Man To The Ground, 57 Cops Resign From Emergency Response Team In Solidarity

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At least one big-city mayor is now calling on the federal government to investigate what appears to be an &#8220;organized&#8221; effort to foment unrest and engage in rioting, as security experts in other cities discover evidence that many of the weekend&#8217;s violent incidents may have been pre-planned and coordinated.
In Chicago, mayor Lori Lightfoot told media Sunday that she believes there is &#8220;strong evidence&#8221; of an organized effort to use the weekend&#8217;s anti-police brutality protests as a cover for violence, <a href="https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/there-no-doubt-was-organized-effort">Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business reports</a>, and said the city is speaking with at least three Federal agencies about a possible joint investigation.
&#8220;Speaking at an afternoon news conference today with other officials, Lightfoot didn’t say whether the groups are out-of-state left-wing anti-fascist organizations generally known as Antifa, right-wing agitators, local street gangs or something else. She said she’s asked three federal agencies—the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms &amp; Explosives, and the U.S. Attorney’s office—for help, with a focus on AFT’s bomb and arson unit,&#8221; the outlet reported late Sunday.
“There is no doubt. This was an organized effort last night,” Lightfoot said in a weekend press conference, referring to Friday&#8217;s unrest. “There were clearly efforts to subvert the peaceful process and make it into something violent.”
“There’s no question that both the people who were fighting and brought the weapons, that was absolutely organized and choreographed,” Lightfoot went on. “It seems also clear that the fires that were set, both of the vehicles and buildings, that that was organized and that was opportunistic, as well as the looting.”
Lightfoot, Crain&#8217;s says, did not mention any specific incidents but appeared to refer to at least one instance where looters drove a U-Haul vehicle into high-end stores located adjacent to the city&#8217;s &#8220;Magnificent Mile&#8221; shopping district and to what appeared to be the fire-bombing of a camera shop on the city&#8217;s near north side.
In New York, terrorism task force officials told an NBC affiliate that there were &#8220;strong indicators&#8221; that rioters &#8220;planned for violence in advance using at times encrypted communications.&#8221;
&#8220;Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller said there is a high level of confidence within the NYPD that these unnamed groups had organized scouts, medics, and supply routes of rocks, bottles, and accelerants for breakaway groups to commit vandalism and violence,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nypds-terrorism-chief-says-unnamed-groups-planned-protest-violence-in-advance/2440722/?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand">NBC News New York reported Sunday</a>.
Although NYC officials have not named any particular groups they believe are associated with violence, Miller referred to &#8220;anarchists&#8221; in his briefing.
&#8220;Before the protests began, organizers of certain anarchists groups set out to raise bail money and people who would be responsible to be raising bail money, they set out to recruit medics and medical teams with gear to deploy in anticipation of violent interactions with police,&#8221; Miller said, per NBC New York. &#8220;They prepared to commit property damage and directed people who were following them that this should be done selectively and only in wealthier areas or at high-end stores run by corporate entities.&#8221;
Rioters &#8220;developed a complex network of bicycle scouts to move ahead of demonstrators in different directions of where police were and where police were not for purposes of being able to direct groups from the larger group to places where they could commit acts of vandalism including the torching of police vehicles and Molotov cocktails where they thought officers would not be,&#8221; according to Miller.
At least four people were arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails into police vehicles over the weekend in NYC. Officials, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, have promised to make information about the weekend&#8217;s violence available Monday.
In Minnesota, officials, speaking at a press conference Sunday, said that they&#8217;d intercepted several vehicles carrying &#8220;flammable materials&#8221; as well as &#8220;looted goods and weapons,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://www.startribune.com/police-arrest-150-driver-who-barreled-into-crowd-held/570908442/?refresh=true">Minneapolis Star-Tribune</a>. Officials also reported that law enforcement found &#8220;caches&#8221; of materials that appear to have been left for rioters to use.
&#8220;Earlier Sunday, state officials said several caches of flammable materials were found both in neighborhoods where there have already been fires and &#8216;in cars we’ve stopped as recently as this morning,&#8217;” according to a public safety commissioner. &#8220;Some of the caches look like they may have been planted days ago and some only in the last 24 hours or so, he said.&#8221;
President Donald Trump said, on Sunday, that he plans to declare the loosely affiliated anarchist group, Antifa, as a &#8220;domestic terrorist&#8221; organization, but details of that declaration are not yet clear.
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Minnesota, New York Officials Say Evidence Shows Weekend Riots Were Planned, Chicago Demands Fed Investigation Into ‘Organized’ Violence

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The following is satirical.
New York has unveiled its new re-opening plan called “Transitioning into Some Vague Semblance of Competence.”
Although the plan is intended to echo Donald Trump’s theme of Transitioning into Greatness, New York officials will not be looking to restore the economy or bring New Yorkers’ lives back to normal, but will instead simply aim to stop slaughtering people’s grandparents in large numbers while saying indefensibly stupid stuff they have to retract hours later.
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the “Transitioning into Some Vague Semblance of Competence” plan will be launched at a large gathering of nursing home residents and Chinese virus sufferers in the hopes that a show of togetherness will ease any hard feelings about that time he forced nursing homes to take the virus sufferers in, thus causing the deaths of thousands.
After the launch party and the resulting funerals, New York will have a grand reopening of the subway system, heralded by make-believe music on invisible guitars played by homeless schizophrenics moving from car to car asking passengers for money as the passengers, packed tightly together in the narrow space, try to edge away from the beggars without actually having sex with the person next to them.
Restaurants will also be reopened, although each diner will have to sit a minimum of three blocks away from their companion, unless it’s their spouse, then it’s four blocks. To facilitate that, restaurants will be allowed to set up tables in the middle of the larger boulevards, although customers will have to clean up after themselves if they should be hit by a bus.
In a speech made to the mountain of corpses he keeps seeing in his dreams for some reason, Cuomo said, “It’s not enough for New York City to be merely intolerable, we must show the world what the greatest city on earth looks like when it’s been misgoverned into the ground.”
Cuomo said that for himself, he would continue to wear a mask, lest he be recognized and brought to justice.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-fear-a-good-economy-will-hurt-their-chances-of-winning-the-election-and-destroying-the-economy-satire">Democrats Fear A Good Economy Will Hurt Their Chances Of Winning The Election And Destroying The Economy</a>
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New York Announces Reopening Plan Called ‘Transitioning Into Some Vague Semblance Of Competence’ [Satire]

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New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo continued to deflect blame on Wednesday from the nursing home <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elise-stefanik-invites-feds-to-investigate-cuomos-failed-nursing-home-policy">scandal</a> he is facing after he issued an order, which his administration has since <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cuomo-coronavirus-order-forcing-nursing-homes-to-take-covid-19-patients-scrubbed-from-new-york-state-website/">deleted</a>, requiring nursing homes to take COVID-19 patients. Cuomo&#8217;s state ended up having the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/09/us/coronavirus-cases-nursing-homes-us.html">most</a> COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes of any state.
During Cuomo&#8217;s press conference Wednesday, a reporter from the New York Post pointed out that the governor had suggested that President Trump was to blame for the state&#8217;s tragic handling of nursing homes and asked if the governor had brought up the issue when he met with Trump earlier in the day.
&#8220;Last week you blamed the 5,000 nursing home deaths in your… President Trump and the CDC guidelines. I’m wondering if you raise that issue with him today?&#8221; the reporter asked.
&#8220;No, but I never did that. I never did that,&#8221; Cuomo insisted.
&#8220;You said that anyone asking about nursing deaths in New York and the State’s policy should ask President Trump,&#8221; the reporter responded.
After saying that he was trying to make the point that criticism directed at him for the state&#8217;s nursing home disaster is unfair because he &#8220;took the same position, which is guidance from the CDC and our State Department of Health,&#8221; on how to handle COVID-19-positive patients regarding nursing homes, Cuomo suggested that his state has actually done well on the issue.
&#8220;In general, you look at how New York did, we’re in Washington, you look how New York did on nursing homes vis-a-vis the nation, we did better than 33 States in the nation, per capita on nursing homes,&#8221; said Cuomo.
Cuomo then took a shot at the Post for pressing him on the issue, accusing them of being &#8220;pro-Donald Trump&#8221; and wanting to &#8220;kill all Democrats.&#8221;
&#8220;There are columnists who made this point at the Post, who are 100% supportive of Donald Trump, and that’s fine, but then believe we have to kill all Democrats,&#8221; Cuomo claimed. &#8220;So I get it. I understand it. They’re open in their support of the Trump administration. And I guess their attitude is to be pro-Donald Trump you have to be anti-Democrat, which I don’t really understand. Be pro-Donald Trump.&#8221;
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<blockquote>NEW YORK POST REPORTER: Hi, Governor. New York Post. Last week you blamed the 5,000 nursing home deaths in your… President Trump and the CDC guidelines. I’m wondering if you raise that issue with him today?
NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO: No, but I never did that. I never did that.
NYP REPORTER: You said that anyone asking about nursing deaths in New York and the State’s policy should ask President Trump.
CUOMO: No, what I said was this. Yes. I said, “They want to play politics with this, right?” There are Republicans who are trying to make political hay out of this, in my opinion. What I said to the Republicans who were making this accusation, “You have to find an accusation for it to work politically that you can make against the Democrat that is not a boomerang and comes back and affects the Republicans.” On the nursing homes, the issue they raised, our State Department of Health followed the same guideline as the CDC, which is a federal agency issued.
So it was my way of saying, thwarting the political attack, because you can’t say, “Oh, bad Democrat.” It’s an issue that a Republican administration took the same position, which is guidance from the CDC and our State Department of Health. Both of them said, “You can’t discriminate against a patient based on COVID.” That’s what they both said. But that was just on that specific.
In general, you look at how New York did, we’re in Washington, you look how New York did on nursing homes vis-a-vis the nation, we did better than 33 States in the nation, per capita on nursing homes. Nursing homes happened to be the place where this virus ravages, despite the fact that we had the greatest number of cases and we were in the eye of the storm. You look at us vis-a-vis the country, where we did better than 33 other states, then those are just facts. But I never blamed him for anything. I was just saying to the Republicans, “That’s not a political attack when the Republican administration had the guidance that did the same thing.” Yes, that factually correct?
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Yeah. And the context for what I said was I said it to a Post reporter because look, I can say all I want, stay away from politics. We’re in an election year, and politics is in the air. There are columnists who made this point at the Post, who are 100% supportive of Donald Trump, and that’s fine, but then believe we have to kill all Democrats. So I get it. I understand it. They’re open in their support of the Trump administration. And I guess their attitude is to be pro-Donald Trump you have to be anti-Democrat, which I don’t really understand. Be pro-Donald Trump.</blockquote>
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NY Gov. Cuomo Holds Daily Briefing From Re-Opened NY Stock Exchange

WATCH: Gov. Cuomo Called Out On Blaming Trump For Nursing Home Scandal, Says NY Did Better Than Majority Of States

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been under fire for a decision to shielding nursing home executives from legal liability in coronavirus cases, and now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/26/andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-execs-immunity">a report in the Guardian</a> seems to connect Cuomo&#8217;s surprise budget provision to a large campaign donation from a hospital system lobby group.
Cuomo&#8217;s administration is still struggling to explain why officials decided to order nursing homes and other adult care facilities to accept recovering COVID-19 patients, many of whom were still positive for the virus, causing major outbreaks in a number of area nursing homes &#8212; outbreaks that led to, perhaps, more than 5,000 deaths.
Andrew Cuomo eventually reversed the order but has defended the decision in public press conferences, claiming that New York was only following the Trump administration&#8217;s directives, even going so far as to blame President Donald Trump for the issue as well as nursing home administrators, whom he claimed did not follow state and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations that coronavirus patients be sequestered from the general population of adult care facilities.
Hidden in Cuomo&#8217;s budget, released separately from the nursing home orders, though, is a provision seemingly exempting nursing home executives from liability in cases where elderly individuals and facility patients fell ill with COVID-19. The provision, according <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-immunity-nursing-home-campaign-donation">to Fox News</a>, says that officials “shall have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, for any harm or damages alleged to have been sustained as a result of an act or omission in the course of arranging for or providing healthcare services.&#8221;
Now, the Guardian, in an expose published Wednesday, reports that the &#8220;the New York State Democratic Committee, then backing Cuomo’s primary run in 2018, received more than $1 million from the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) &#8212; a lobbying group for hospital systems, some of which own nursing homes.&#8221;
&#8220;As Governor Andrew Cuomo faced a spirited challenge in his bid to win New York’s 2018 Democratic primary, his political apparatus got a last-minute boost: a powerful healthcare industry group suddenly poured more than $1m into a Democratic committee backing his campaign,&#8221; the Guardian notes.
<blockquote>Less than two years after that flood of cash from the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), Cuomo signed legislation last month quietly shielding hospital and nursing home executives from the threat of lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus outbreak. The provision, inserted into an annual budget bill by Cuomo’s aides, created one of the nation’s most explicit immunity protections for healthcare industry officials, according to legal experts.</blockquote>
&#8220;Three of the hospital association’s top officials separately gave more than $150,000 to Cuomo’s campaign between 2015 and 2018,&#8221; Fox News added in a follow up on the Guardian&#8217;s report.
Cuomo&#8217;s office says the order is designed to allow nursing home officials to complete their duties without fear.
“This pandemic remains an unprecedented public health crisis and we had to realign New York’s entire healthcare system, using every type of facility to prepare for the surge, and recruiting more than 96,000 volunteers – 25,000 from out of state, to help fight this virus,” a Cuomo senior advisor told the Guardian. “These volunteers are good samaritans and what was passed by 111 members of the legislature was an expansion of the existing Good Samaritan Law to apply to the emergency that coronavirus created. If we had not done this, these volunteers wouldn’t have been accepted and we never would have had enough frontline healthcare workers.”
New York lawmakers are clamoring to reverse the liability waiver, just as their session is ending in Albany, the Guardian says.
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NY Gov. Cuomo

REPORT: Andrew Cuomo Granted Nursing Homes Legal Protection After Receiving Campaign Donation

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A woman accused of racism and animal abuse has lost her job after a video of an altercation in New York City’s Central Park went viral.
Social media users outed Amy Cooper after she was filmed threatening to call the police on a black man and tell them “there’s an African-American man threatening my life.” Cooper was first suspended from her position at the investment management firm Franklin Templeton pending an internal review and was later fired.
“Following our internal review of the incident in Central Park yesterday, we have made the decision to terminate the employee involved, effective immediately. We do not tolerate racism of any kind at Franklin Templeton,” the company said on Twitter.
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Following our internal review of the incident in Central Park yesterday, we have made the decision to terminate the employee involved, effective immediately. We do not tolerate racism of any kind at Franklin Templeton.
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Cooper lost her job despite issuing a public apology after the incident. “I&#8217;m not a racist. I did not mean to harm that man in any way,” she told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/us/central-park-video-dog-video-african-american-trnd/index.html">CNN</a>.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio sounded off on the incident in a tweet on Tuesday morning.
“The video out of Central Park is racism, plain and simple. She called the police BECAUSE he was a Black man. Even though she was the one breaking the rules. She decided he was the criminal and we know why. This kind of hatred has no place in our city,” the mayor said.
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The video out of Central Park is racism, plain and simple.
She called the police BECAUSE he was a Black man. Even though she was the one breaking the rules. She decided he was the criminal and we know why.
This kind of hatred has no place in our city. <a href="https://t.co/6PP7jIwL1g">https://t.co/6PP7jIwL1g</a>
&mdash; Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1265265665755230209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cooper, a white woman, was exercising her dog in Central Park’s Ramble over the Memorial Day weekend. She had let the dog off its leash, breaking a rule for pets in the Ramble. Christian Cooper, a black man and no relation to Amy, told her that she was breaking the rules and that she should put her dog on a leash. He posted a rough transcript of what transpired on his Facebook page.
<blockquote>Central Park this morning: This woman&#8217;s dog is tearing through the plantings in the Ramble.
ME: Ma&#8217;am, dogs in the Ramble have to be on the leash at all times. The sign is right there.
HER: The dog runs are closed. He needs his exercise.
ME: All you have to do is take him to the other side of the drive, outside the Ramble, and you can let him run off leash all you want.
HER: It&#8217;s too dangerous.
ME: Look, if you&#8217;re going to do what you want, I&#8217;m going to do what I want, but you&#8217;re not going to like it.
HER: What&#8217;s that?
ME (to the dog): Come here, puppy!
HER: He won&#8217;t come to you.
ME: We&#8217;ll see about that&#8230;
I pull out the dog treats I carry for just for such intransigence. I didn&#8217;t even get a chance to toss any treats to the pooch before Karen scrambled to grab the dog.
HER: DON&#8217;T YOU TOUCH MY DOG!!!!!
That&#8217;s when I started video recording with my iPhone, and when her inner Karen fully emerged and took a dark turn&#8230;</blockquote>
The man also posted a video showing a distressed Amy holding her dog by the collar, presumably choking the animal, while threatening to call the police on Christian. Eventually, she does call the police, saying, “There is an African-American man. I am in Central Park. He is recording me and threatening myself and my dog.”
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UPDATE: Woman From Viral ‘Karen’ Video Fired; NYC Mayor De Blasio Weighs In

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A $21 million field hospital in Brooklyn, New York, built to deal exclusively with a predicted flood of COVID-19 patients, has been shut down.
The number of COVID-19 patients treated? Zero, <a href="https://thecity.nyc/2020/05/brooklyn-field-hospital-in-red-hook-shuts-after-no-patients.html">The City</a> reported.
The facility was part of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s demand for thousands of additional hospital beds for what he predicted would be a massive influx of COVID patients. The city built smaller facilities at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center (350 beds) and Stony Point on Long Island, along with a 2,910-bed medical center at the Javitz Center.
All told, the city shelled out $350 million for facilities it never needed.
The City reported:
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Earlier this month, the makeshift hospital at the tennis center closed after taking in 79 patients, according to City Hall officials. It cost $19.8 million to construct and revert back, the officials said.
The lower-profile Red Hook terminal hospital was slated to open in mid-April but wasn’t ready for service until May 4. By then, citywide hospital utilization had already fallen by half its April 12 highpoint, to about 6,000 patients.
City officials say the $20.8 million site, constructed by Texas-based contractor SLSCO under a no-bid emergency contract, is now being demobilized after seeing no medical activity.
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The same thing happened with the Javitz Center, which Cuomo demanded the feds turn into a hospital, outfitted with expensive medical equipment and nearly 3,000 beds. How’d that work out? “As of April 7, the convention center had admitted only 66 patients,” Business Insider reported. By April 20, Javitz had treated just 1,000 patients.
Cuomo also demanded that President Donald Trump dispatch a Navy ship (that was, at the time, in port being overhauled) to New York City ASAP. Mr. Trump ordered the USNS Comfort, outfitted with 500 beds to handle the overflow from packed hospitals, up to New York City.
Turns out that wasn&#8217;t needed, either. “Nearly 90% of the US Navy hospital ship in New York is empty amid coronavirus fight,” CNBC wrote in mid-April. “As of Friday [April 17], 71 of the USNS Comfort’s 500 beds were occupied.”
By the end, the ship was little used. &#8220;The USNS Comfort, a hospital ship operated by the U.S. Navy that arrived following Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pleas for federal assistance, treated 182 patients during its nearly four weeks docked at Pier 90 in midtown Manhattan, according to <a href="https://abc7ny.com/usns-comfort-coronavirus-nyc-update-corona-virus/6139418/">ABC-7</a> news.&#8221;
The ship was sent home after Cuomo said, “we don’t need it any more.”
Who&#8217;s footing the bill for all this? City officials &#8220;expect the Federal Emergency Management Agency to pick up the costs for both of the temporary hospitals — which include an additional $2 million paid out to a second firm for construction management,&#8221; The City reported.
&#8220;The federal Army Corps of Engineers also spent more than $350 million for field hospitals in the New York City region that had been sought by Cuomo but were never utilized — including $136 million for a facility at Stony Brook on Long Island, according to the Associated Press,&#8221; The City wrote.
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So Many NYPD Officers Are Applying For Retirement That Department Forced To Slow Applications, Report Claims

New York Attorney General Orders Black Lives Matter Foundation To Stop Soliciting Donations. It’s Not What You Think.

WATCH: NY Demonstrator ‘Dances,’ Yells At Black Cop: ‘You’re Like A F***ing Black Judas’

High School Teacher Worked With Mafia, Bribed DEA For Decades In Drug Trafficking Scheme

Jamaal Bowman, Far-Left Primary Challenger, Set To Oust 16-Term NY Congressman; Releases Victory Statement

Cuomo Again Tries To Blame Federal Government For COVID Nursing Home Crisis. White House: Not So Fast.

Police Officers ‘Poisoned’ At Shake Shack Were Hospitalized Without Ever Showing Symptoms

BIZARRO WORLD: Trump Backs Ocasio-Cortez In Senate Run

Hollywood Actor: Replace Theodore Roosevelt Statue With One Of Comedian Robin Williams

[UPDATED] Barr Claims Trump Fired U.S. Attorney After He Refused To Resign

BREAKING: New York Police Department Eliminating Plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit

Cuomo Warns New Yorkers Of Second Lockdown Over Restaurants, Bars, Ignores Massive Brooklyn Protest

Two Officers Who Allegedly Pushed 75-Year-Old Protestor In Viral Video Charged With Assault, Plead Not Guilty

DA Investigating Shocking Video Of Buffalo PD Shoving Old Man To The Ground, 57 Cops Resign From Emergency Response Team In Solidarity

Minnesota, New York Officials Say Evidence Shows Weekend Riots Were Planned, Chicago Demands Fed Investigation Into ‘Organized’ Violence

New York Announces Reopening Plan Called ‘Transitioning Into Some Vague Semblance Of Competence’ [Satire]

WATCH: Gov. Cuomo Called Out On Blaming Trump For Nursing Home Scandal, Says NY Did Better Than Majority Of States

REPORT: Andrew Cuomo Granted Nursing Homes Legal Protection After Receiving Campaign Donation

UPDATE: Woman From Viral ‘Karen’ Video Fired; NYC Mayor De Blasio Weighs In

$21 Million Brooklyn Field Hospital Shuts Down: COVID-19 Patients Treated — Zero

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New York

So Many NYPD Officers Are Applying For Retirement That Department Forced To Slow Applications, Report Claims

New York Attorney General Orders Black Lives Matter Foundation To Stop Soliciting Donations. It’s Not What You Think.

WATCH: NY Demonstrator ‘Dances,’ Yells At Black Cop: ‘You’re Like A F***ing Black Judas’

High School Teacher Worked With Mafia, Bribed DEA For Decades In Drug Trafficking Scheme

Jamaal Bowman, Far-Left Primary Challenger, Set To Oust 16-Term NY Congressman; Releases Victory Statement

Cuomo Again Tries To Blame Federal Government For COVID Nursing Home Crisis. White House: Not So Fast.

Police Officers ‘Poisoned’ At Shake Shack Were Hospitalized Without Ever Showing Symptoms

BIZARRO WORLD: Trump Backs Ocasio-Cortez In Senate Run

Hollywood Actor: Replace Theodore Roosevelt Statue With One Of Comedian Robin Williams

[UPDATED] Barr Claims Trump Fired U.S. Attorney After He Refused To Resign

BREAKING: New York Police Department Eliminating Plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit

Cuomo Warns New Yorkers Of Second Lockdown Over Restaurants, Bars, Ignores Massive Brooklyn Protest

Two Officers Who Allegedly Pushed 75-Year-Old Protestor In Viral Video Charged With Assault, Plead Not Guilty

DA Investigating Shocking Video Of Buffalo PD Shoving Old Man To The Ground, 57 Cops Resign From Emergency Response Team In Solidarity

Minnesota, New York Officials Say Evidence Shows Weekend Riots Were Planned, Chicago Demands Fed Investigation Into ‘Organized’ Violence

New York Announces Reopening Plan Called ‘Transitioning Into Some Vague Semblance Of Competence’ [Satire]

WATCH: Gov. Cuomo Called Out On Blaming Trump For Nursing Home Scandal, Says NY Did Better Than Majority Of States

REPORT: Andrew Cuomo Granted Nursing Homes Legal Protection After Receiving Campaign Donation

UPDATE: Woman From Viral ‘Karen’ Video Fired; NYC Mayor De Blasio Weighs In

$21 Million Brooklyn Field Hospital Shuts Down: COVID-19 Patients Treated — Zero

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