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UglyGreed

(7,661 posts) Sat Dec 20, 2014, 08:47 AM Dec 2014

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NYPD supporters wear 'I can breathe' hoodies at City Hall, sparking war with opposing demonstrators

After going back and forth at each other, the anti-police brutality protestors jammed onto the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges to take their message to Brooklyn, causing massive traffic delays, according to the city’s Office of Emergency Management.

NYPD supporters wearing black hoodies with the words “I can breathe” demonstrated outside City Hall Friday evening, sparking a war of words with opposing protesters picketing at the same location.

Outnumbered 2 to 1, about 100 police supporters proudly sported the hoodies — a sick twist on Staten Island father of six Eric Garner’s final words as he died from a police chokehold on July 17.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/suspect-arrested-assault-cops-brooklyn-bridge-article-1.2051361

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NYPD supporters wear 'I can breathe' hoodies at City Hall, sparking war with opposing demonstrators (Original Post) UglyGreed Dec 2014 OP

Shockingly insensitive yet par-for-the-course for LEO defenders... Cooley Hurd Dec 2014 #1

Really takes some UglyGreed Dec 2014 #4

There's a term for that....it's called TONE DEAF, at a minimum, and DELIBERATELY GOADING at worst. MADem Dec 2014 #2

Of course they can breath. No one has them on the ground in a choke hold. Shrike47 Dec 2014 #3

I doubt they'd wear those shirts Lunacee_2013 Dec 2014 #5

They don't understand that simply obeying the law won't protect you. baldguy Dec 2014 #6

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

1. Shockingly insensitive yet par-for-the-course for LEO defenders...

Reply to UglyGreed (Original post)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 08:55 AM

Dec 2014

A "sick twist" indeed!

UglyGreed

(7,661 posts)

4. Really takes some

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 09:41 AM

Dec 2014

nerve.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

2. There's a term for that....it's called TONE DEAF, at a minimum, and DELIBERATELY GOADING at worst.

Reply to UglyGreed (Original post)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 09:10 AM

Dec 2014

Of course those assholes can breathe--they're "in" with the "in crowd."

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)

3. Of course they can breath. No one has them on the ground in a choke hold.

Reply to UglyGreed (Original post)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 09:11 AM

Dec 2014

They might as well hold signs saying 'I am white and entitled.'

Lunacee_2013

(529 posts)

5. I doubt they'd wear those shirts

Reply to UglyGreed (Original post)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 10:34 AM

Dec 2014

if they were the ones forced to the ground by 5-6 cops, who then sat on them while putting them in a choke hold. Jesus, talk about being tone deaf!

baldguy

(36,649 posts)

6. They don't understand that simply obeying the law won't protect you.

Reply to UglyGreed (Original post)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 10:41 AM

Dec 2014

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