A new settlement cuffs cops and guarantees more protests will become riots
By Post Editorial Board
Published Sep. 10, 2023, 5:15 p.m. ET
Once again, the city has agreed to a bad court settlement that will make New York harder to govern.
This one puts new cuffs on cops: The NYPD must stop “kettling” crowds of unruly protesters.
It was bad enough when City Hall agreed to pay $13 million to Black Lives Matter protesters — nearly 10 grand per rioter — who’d gotten themselves arrested amid the looting, arson and violence that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The settlement of this case, stemming from the same 2020 protests, ends the crowd-control tactic where cops corral packs of unruly demonstrators before arresting or taking other action against individual members of the crowd.
Mayor Eric Adams said this will “ensure that we are both protecting public safety and respecting protesters’ First Amendment rights.”
Huh? These 2020 protests (and some the next year) were routinely breaking COVID curfew restrictions, and the demos regularly turned into full-on riots, accompanied by looting and arson.
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