The horrific ambush-style murder of two NYPD officers last Saturday stunned a New York already wearied by the Eric Garner grand jury decision. It also broke the right’s law-and-order contingent out of what had been a very uncomfortable corner. The horrific execution of the two NYPD officers also licensed the discourse’s return to the societal need for hardline tactics. In a series of savage tweets, fiery press conferences and bitter interviews, the city’s law-and-order contingent seized the opportunity to shift the focus away from the devastating—and racially specific—consequences of police tactics and onto their alleged function as the only thing that buttresses society from anarchy. alternet.org/bloody-bad-old-days-how-specter-1970s-new-york-used-quash-dissent?page=0%2C0
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:56:59 +0000
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