NYC officials against their own peace officers

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I'd like to know if he ever had to care for a toddler while waiting in line for hours on end.

It's her own damn fault she had a bloody child she can't afford to bloody feed. And others in there have waited without acting like an extra from "Walking Dead".

That said, I think local government should work on reducing wait times. But it's easier to throw officers doing their jobs under the bus than to allocate more resources to a SNAP office I guess.

I had to do it in an airport once and yes, you reach a point where you either give up your place in line or you sit down right where you are as you try to invent another way to keep your child entertained.

Did you bite anybody?

 

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^^^ That. After 4 hours of standing while holding her baby, the least this office should have done is get her a chair.

Did you miss the part that there were empty chairs in the office that she refused to use, insisting to sit on the floor?

 

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Is it?

Yes.

This article largely glosses over what happened, and focuses more on the outcome. But what actually happened is highly relevant.

The article is dispassionate, unlike the hyperbolic report in your link.

But the charges should not have been dropped. She really did resist arrest. She really did bite an officer. I do not think DA should drop viable charges just because of politics.
If the DA did not want her serving any additional time, he could have plea bargained her to a misdemeanor, time served and some amount of community service.

Perhaps the DA realizes that the HRA's actions and the police response could be reasonably taken to have endangered a child, and that a subsequent lawsuit would cost the city more, and that by dropping these trivial charges, it may reduce or eliminate possibility of such a lawsuit. Or, perhaps the DA is a decent and humane person who realizes that woman has enough criminal charges to deal with.

"Beleaguered"? She put herself in that situation.

Technically, the HRA and the police put her in that position. There was no compelling need to call the police. There was no compelling reason to quickly resort to force instead of using talking and reason to de-escalate this trivial situation.

And she grabbed her kid for the express purpose of using him to avoid getting arrested.

That has not been established as fact. But even if had, that does not justify the police response.

Do you think parents of small children should be able to use them as a "get out of jail free" card? Because that's what it sounds to me. At least if the parent is black and female ...

Playing the race and gender cards in a straw man - a trifecta of bigoted illogic.

 

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Nothing irrelevant about talking about real crimes when some snowflake is crying about minor assault.

Biting is not really "minor".

That little incident is of zero consequence to me compared to the frauds that caused the most recent international economic depression. But we see that little things like that keep you and all of the rest of the Trump base awake at night while the actual bad shit that affect us economic are completely ignored.