{"id":520,"date":"2020-06-03T02:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cuomo-and-de-blasio-are-refusing-to-face-what-rioting-means-for-new-york\/"},"modified":"2020-06-03T02:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T23:54:00","slug":"cuomo-and-de-blasio-are-refusing-to-face-what-rioting-means-for-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cuomo-and-de-blasio-are-refusing-to-face-what-rioting-means-for-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cuomo and de Blasio are refusing to face what rioting means for New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Cuomo and de Blasio are refusing to face what rioting means for New York<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 2, 2020 |<\/span> 7:54pm <\/p>\n

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\n Mayor Bill de Blasio tours Flatbush with Councilmembers Farah Louis and Mathieu Eugene and Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte on Sunday, May 31.<\/span>
\n Michael App<\/a>leton\/Mayoral Photography Office<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n Macy\u2019s? The cops let them loot Macy\u2019s \u2014 the Miracle on 34th Street store?<\/p>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n

Everybody who grew up in this town has at least once ridden the rickety wooden escalator at the center of Macy\u2019s Herald Square \u2014 a building almost as iconic to New York City as the Empire State Building. They\u2019ve made movies<\/a> about them both.<\/p>\n

And so a city with 40,000 cops hasn\u2019t the will to station a couple of hundred of them between its cultural heritage \u2014 kitschy as it sometimes may seem \u2014 and an opportunistic mob?<\/p>\n

Shocking and shameful.<\/p>\n

The thing with anarchists, with rioters and with looters is that if you give them an inch, they\u2019ll take your city\u2019s soul. And it has been the policy of New York City for several nights now to give them as many inches as they demand.<\/p>\n

But when Gotham\u2019s top uniformed cop kneels in solidarity with nihilism \u2014 as Chief of Department Terence Monahan did Monday \u2014 the nihilists didn\u2019t go home and stream Netflix.<\/p>\n

They went out and took another bite from the Big Apple.<\/p>\n

And not just at Macy\u2019s. And not just in Midtown. The Bronx was burning Monday night, and suddenly it was 1977 all over again. It\u2019s been going on for days, everywhere \u2014 and the pressing question Tuesday afternoon was: What will Wednesday bring?<\/p>\n

To be sure, anarchist provocation and garden-variety greed seem to have paralyzed the national will as well. Yet New York is supposed to be better than that; so far, it has been anything but.<\/p>\n

Hand the blame to Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo. They\u2019re content to declare curfews and cluck on about social<\/a> justice and peaceful protest. But that\u2019s it. And that\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n

Sure, the mayor and governor have coronavirus-recovery distractions \u2014 but do the two of them even understand what the rioting means? They don\u2019t act like it, but how could they not \u2014 they\u2019ve both been in town a long time, they\u2019ve been down this road before and they know where it can lead.<\/p>\n

Surely they know that urban tumult doesn\u2019t end until it is brought to an end \u2014 sometimes by direct action, sometimes by wholly preventable tragedy.<\/p>\n

In 1991, anti-Semitic rioting in Crown Heights took two lives and then ran for three full days and nights \u2014 allegedly with the approval of then-Mayor David Dinkins. He denies he let it run, but the fact is that when he finally ordered his deputy police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, to end it, it ended.<\/p>\n

So even belated firmness works.<\/p>\n

But in December 2014, ever-escalating anti-cop protest turmoil was tolerated \u2014 even wink-and-nod encouraged \u2014 by de Blasio\u2019s City Hall. Each day was more violent than the one before \u2014 and it didn\u2019t end until a suicidal lunatic drawn by the disorder opened fire on two cops sitting in a patrol car in Brooklyn, killing them both.<\/p>\n

Feckless acquiescence of the sort we\u2019re seeing now bred tragedy \u2014 and worked only insofar as the shock of the assassinations took the steam out of the demonstrations, and they faded on their own.<\/p>\n

So there are two models here.<\/p>\n

De Blasio can go the firmness route \u2014 and Cuomo, who has never before hesitated to interfere in the mayor\u2019s business, can back him up. That is, if need be, he can force de Blasio\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n

Or they both can stand by and let the rioters roll.<\/p>\n

Then there will be more looting, more burning, more victims \u2014 and an ever-escalating sense that the city is incapable of preserving the public peace and that it lacks the courage even to try.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be frank: The notion that the actions of four cops in Minnesota on Memorial Day in any way justifies the continued fracturing of New York City\u2019s social order 10 days later is nonsense on its face.<\/p>\n

And the willingness of Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo to tolerate what has been happening in New York since last Friday \u2014 violence is rampant upstate as well \u2014 is scandalous beyond words.<\/p>\n

For the two of them, it\u2019s always been better to do nothing than to alienate an interest group \u2014 but effectively accelerating municipal mayhem through studied inaction is something altogether new.<\/p>\n

And it needs to end.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @rlmac2 <\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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