{"id":54726,"date":"2020-08-17T06:54:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T11:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54726"},"modified":"2020-08-17T06:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T11:54:19","slug":"new-york-city-police-use-pandemic-to-create-covid-19-checkpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54726","title":{"rendered":"New York City Police Use Pandemic To Create COVID-19 Checkpoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-header\">\n<h3 class=\"title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/massprivatei.blogspot.com\/2020\/08\/new-york-city-police-use-pandemic-to.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-item-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7169492228861338893\">New York City Police Use Pandemic To Create COVID-19 Checkpoints<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-content entry-content\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"separator\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"YOUTUBE-iframe-video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WJjwv-Osw2k?feature=player_embedded&amp;wmode=opaque\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-thumbnail-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/WJjwv-Osw2k\/0.jpg\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A recent article in\u00a0<i>The New York Post<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/08\/over-350-cars-stopped-at-nyc-checkpoints-to-enforce-quarantine\/\">revealed<\/a>\u00a0how the NYPD used the pandemic to justify creating COVID-19 checkpoints.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p><i>&#8220;New York officials have stopped 353 cars at entrances to the Big Apple to warn travelers of the mandatory two-week quarantine rule.\u00a0The stops were made from Wednesday through Friday at bridges and tunnels, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s office.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Police are using the pandemic as an excuse to circumvent the Fourth Amendment by asking a vehicle&#8217;s occupants to answer questions like have they\u00a0spent more than 24 hours during the previous 14 days in any state on New York\u2019s restricted list?<\/p>\n<p>The city has the audacity to claim that these stops are \u201cquick and educational.\u201d There is nothing quick and educational about being stopped and questioned by government officials.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything educational about fining people $10,000 dollars?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p><i>&#8220;Travelers who violate the quarantine rule could face up to $10,000 in fines. There are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/21\/over-half-of-us-cant-go-to-ny-without-2-week-quarantine-cuomo\/\">currently 35 states<\/a>\u00a0plus Puerto Rico on the list.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this year,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/opinion\/scott-maxwell-commentary\/os-op-florida-coronavirus-covid-checkpoints-bogus-scott-maxwell-20200714-dkfqbxgigbgcvdc4a55e3bf6hq-story.html\">The Orlando Sentinel<\/a><\/i>\u00a0called COVID-19 checkpoints security theater, and worried about the cost to taxpayers. COVID-19 checkpoints have also been set up in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/news\/20200506\/out-of-state-drivers-asked-to-stop-at-checkpoint-before-boarding-newport-pell-bridge\">Rhode Island<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/03\/29\/us\/dare-county-north-carolina-state-of-emergency-trnd\/index.html\">North Carolina<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taosnews.com\/coronavirus\/taos-county-checkpoints-covid19\/article_415bf072-c3b9-11ea-95cc-3b0d609450d9.html\">Colorado<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wapt.com\/article\/hinds-county-deputies-hand-out-masks-during-checkpoints\/33218877#\">Mississippi<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2020\/04\/05\/la-state-police-use-caution-remain-alert-traffic-congestion-when-traveling-texas-louisiana\/\">Louisiana<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/trafficandcommuting\/covid-19-checkpoints-targeting-out-of-state-residents-draw-complaints-and-legal-scrutiny\/2020\/04\/14\/3fc0ed42-774e-11ea-b6ff-597f170df8f8_story.html\">Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><b>Penn Station COVID-19 checkpoint\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QvRx1vZ8wiA\/XzGqUHqV9XI\/AAAAAAAAMPk\/poG5Ifew2I0WvPkGuyjbsusNxUuShmXGwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/Penn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QvRx1vZ8wiA\/XzGqUHqV9XI\/AAAAAAAAMPk\/poG5Ifew2I0WvPkGuyjbsusNxUuShmXGwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/Penn.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"500\" data-original-width=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\">credit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wkzo.com\/news\/articles\/2020\/aug\/06\/quarantine-checkpoint-opens-at-new-york-citys-penn-station-to-enforce-travel-rules\/1046999\/?refer-section=national\">WKZO<\/a><\/div>\n<p>A WKZO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wkzo.com\/news\/articles\/2020\/aug\/06\/quarantine-checkpoint-opens-at-new-york-citys-penn-station-to-enforce-travel-rules\/1046999\/?refer-section=national\">article<\/a>\u00a0shows U.S. military personnel conducting a COVID-19 checkpoint at Penn Station.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p><i>&#8220;A few dozen travelers got off a train from Miami at New York City&#8217;s Penn Station on Thursday and were greeted by a team of public health workers and mayoral office staff who handed them informational fliers about the state&#8217;s new COVID-19 quarantine rules.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Government officials use COVID-19 as an excuse to question and interrogate visitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Police Use Pandemic To Create COVID-19 Checkpoints A recent article in\u00a0The New York Post\u00a0revealed\u00a0how the NYPD used the pandemic to justify creating COVID-19 checkpoints. &#8220;New York officials have stopped 353 cars at entrances to the Big Apple to warn travelers of the mandatory two-week quarantine rule.\u00a0The stops were made from Wednesday through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29011,26372,568,30203,30202,855],"class_list":["post-54726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-covid-19","tag-mass-private-i","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc-police","tag-police-checkpoints","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54727,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54726\/revisions\/54727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}