Gov. Andrew Cuomo orders curfew for New York City

[Sugar Cookie]

June 1, 2020 | 4:07pm

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced a curfew for New York City, following four nights of sometimes violent protests over the death of unarmed black man George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

“There’s gonna be a curfew in New York City that we think could be helpful and more importantly there’s going to be an increase in the force in New York City,” the third term Democrat said on the Upstate radio show WAMC The Roundtable.

The curfew will run from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., and see the 4,000 NYPD officers who flooded city streets during Sunday’s protests increase twofold.

“There will be double that, about 8,000 [cops] tonight,” said Cuomo. “It’s from 11 [p.m.] to 5 [a.m.] tonight and then we’ll see where we are tomorrow.”

Among those exempt from the order will be essential workers, the homeless and the press, according to a City Hall source.

Cuomo said that the drastic move was necessitated by the uniquely violent looting, vandalism and clashes with police that have gripped the Big Apple, which he and other officials have attributed to outside interlopers hijacking for their anarachistic purposes what were supposed to be peaceful protests.

“Last night was a bad night in New York City,” he said. “It’s just in New York City by the way, not in Upstate.”

Cuomo had raised the possibility of a curfew earlier in the day, and said that he would confer with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“I support and protect peaceful protest in this city. The demonstrations we’ve seen have been generally peaceful,” said de Blasio in a joint statement with Cuomo announcing the curfew. “We can’t let violence undermine the message of this moment.

“Tonight, to protect against violence and property damage, the Governor and I have decided to implement a citywide curfew.”

When asked earlier on Monday about a possible curfew, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said on NBC’s “Today” show that he didn’t believe it would do any good.

“I’ll be honest with you, we could impose a curfew today,” he said. “The problem is, people need to listen to a curfew, that’s not going to happen, first and foremost. If people think it will, they don’t understand what’s going on.”

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City and state lawmakers were stunned by Monday’s shock announcement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio that the Big Apple would be placed under an 11pm curfew following days of protests and unrest across the city.

“The fact that city food delivery workers who work overnight to restock shelves are messaging me frantically right now not sure if they can work tonight with the abruptly announced city curfew tells you a lot about the state of government right now,” tweeted Councilman Mark Treyger (D-Brooklyn).

“It’s amazing when as an elected you find out that your neighborhood is going on lockdown because of Twitter,” wrote Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz (D-Queens). “Not because the Mayor or the Gov’s teams give you a heads up… and it’s even better when you ask and they blame each other for the decision.”

Councilman Justin Brannan responded sarcastically, “Nothing like being an elected official and getting your news from @NY1.”

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[Sejanus]

Grocery workers/ food supply workers fall under essential workers do they not?
They are up here in Ontario.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

@Sejanus

They are just looking to be hyperbolic.

 

[Totemic]

A curfew does nothing. Most folks are already smart enough to get the fuck out an area when they see the pack moving down the road.

 

[cubby]

They will abide by a curfew because they've been so law abiding already. Damn Biden's not the only idiot.

And here in Georgia, grocery workers are essential too

 

[Sugar Cookie]

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo has apologized to NYPD chiefs for branding officers “not effective” in controlling the chaos and widespread looting that has gripped the Big Apple in the wake of George Floyd protests.

“Last night his office called and apologized to me, and I know he called the commissioner directly to apologize,” Chief Terence Monahan told the “Today” show Wednesday morning.

“That’s not what he meant — he did not mean to put down the police officers.

“I hope he would come out publicly and say that again today during his press conferences because the men and women of this agency have done a remarkable job in probably unprecedented times.

“And I couldn’t be prouder of the work that men and women of this agency have done.”

The chief reiterated, “Don’t ever call them ineffective.”

Insisting the NYPD is “not a racist organization,” he also condemned people for using George Floyd’s shocking caught-on-camera fatal arrest to attack cops.

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Video of a “looting street party” in Soho went viral Tuesday night — just as Mayor Bill de Blasio downplayed the extent of the chaos on national television.

Footage posted to Twitter shows hundreds of revelers packed along an unidentified Soho street, some dancing on cars and others recording the wild scene on their phones.

It’s unclear when the video — captioned “Full-on looting street party in SoHo” — was taken, but it was posted at 10:21 p.m., after de Blasio called in to CNN.

“I just want to correct one thing, if I may, that we had a really troubling situation last night in Midtown, Manhattan and in one area in the Bronx,” he said, referring to the series of looting and destruction that ravaged the city Monday night.

“But we had no unrest, no looting in Brooklyn and Queens and Staten Island, and most of the Bronx and most of Manhattan, I really want to set that straight.”

Looters trashed parts of Manhattan and the Bronx Monday night ahead of an 11 p.m. citywide curfew. An 8 p.m. curfew and traffic restrictions were implemented Tuesday night, resulting in dozens of protesters arrested near the Battery Tunnel.

Looters struck parts of Manhattan for a third night in a row Tuesday, though the damage appeared to be less than previous nights.

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