{"id":53943,"date":"2020-06-29T08:01:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T13:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53943"},"modified":"2020-06-29T08:01:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T13:01:47","slug":"what-law-did-we-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53943","title":{"rendered":"What Law Did We Break?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/06\/28\/new-york-city-curfew-nypd-protests\/\">WHAT LAW DID WE BREAK?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How the NYPD Weaponized a Curfew Against Protesters and Residents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HUSAN BLUE,&nbsp;his family, and his neighbors were having a cookout on the patio outside their apartment in Crown Heights. It was a warm summer night in Brooklyn. Little kids were running around and playing. People were talking and celebrating. Blue\u2019s dad had just had a birthday, and a couple of the neighbors had new babies on the way. \u201cIt was a calm night,\u201d Blue told me. \u201cThere was a lot of things to be happy about.\u201d Around 11:30p.m., Blue made a run to the corner store. When the 30-year-old came back, a small army of police officers in riot gear were gathered outside his building. They were dressed, in Blue\u2019s words, \u201cfor war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue asked his family and friends what was going on, and quickly learned that the police had ordered them to go inside. New York City was\u00a0three days into a newly imposed curfew,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/02\/nyregion\/curfew-new-york-city.html\">the first in 75 years<\/a>, announced in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2020\/06\/01\/new-york-city-curfew-protests\">joint statement<\/a>\u00a0by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov.\u00a0Andrew\u00a0Cuomo as a measure to restore order amid the protests and looting that followed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/05\/29\/george-floyd-minneapolis-police-reform\/\">killing of George Floyd<\/a>\u00a0by Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin. Blue had done his research, and he was fairly certain that the curfew, which was focused on public areas, did not apply to private property. Nonetheless, there was nothing to be gained in testing the New York Police Department. \u201cLet\u2019s clean up,\u201d he said. \u201cNo need to get hostile.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The officers piled on, driving their knees into Blue\u2019s torso. They yanked his arms behind his back and zip-tied his wrists together. Blue had shoulder surgery just four days prior, his stitches were still in. The pain was excruciating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT LAW DID WE BREAK? How the NYPD Weaponized a Curfew Against Protesters and Residents HUSAN BLUE,&nbsp;his family, and his neighbors were having a cookout on the patio outside their apartment in Crown Heights. It was a warm summer night in Brooklyn. Little kids were running around and playing. People were talking and celebrating. 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