After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail
After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail
NYPD arrested 282 protesters at Columbia and the City College of New York. Two college protesters were placed in solitary confinement.
Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside.
Other students reported that they were beaten by New York City Police Department officers after their arrests and taken to the hospital for injuries before being returned to central booking. Photos of the injuries were provided to The Intercept.
Other students reported that they were held in mouse-infested cells, along with the general population of the jail. The students told the professors that they weren’t given water or food for 16 hours and that at least one student was left without shoes for the same period of time.
Just a reminder that, at least as of 2020, the NYPD alone is in the top 30 military budgets in the world when compared to full countries. They spent $10,900,000,000 (that's 11 billion if you don't wanna count the zeroes out).
Are they funding a RoboCop program or something? 11 billion. WTF?!
It's seemingly closer to $6b for that year, which is obviously a ton of money, but considering they employ north of 50,000 people, if each person costs them $75,000/yr that's already $3.75b. NYC spends $2b on just their department of sanitation. It's a city with like 8.5m people, everything costs crazy amounts of money.
https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2021/05/NYPD.pdf
https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2021/05/DSNY.pdfYes. However, it was decommissioned. My guess is that the prototype was so successful at being large, slow, and generally unhelpful that it threatened police jobs and by extension the police union.
Just the robot dogs for now, but I’m sure they’ll be first in line when the tech is available.
Pensions
LAPD is over a billion and they don't even serve the vast majority of LA. LASD does most of it (though they do a really bad job of it).
It's what happens when you have incredibly rich people living right next to the incredibly poor.
Wall St investors actually have to be in close proximity with the janitors whose lives they're ruining with maximizing profit. We can't have the proles getting any ideas about fighting back...
NYPD officers are bullies with badges.
"Bullies"? Really? Ya think a good finger wagging'll teach those boys to behave? Or, maybe simply illustrating with 10% of the bigoted sacks of pork cum what "decimate" originally meant would have a more lasting and positive impact on them as a group? Who knows? ACAB.
And New York is not the only place where that's the case...
Shouldn't have [checks notes] exercised their rights.
A couple of years ago I interviewed a guy living in SF who wanted to come over to Norway, to work as a software developer. I asked him why he wanted to make the move and he went on about how he had to get outta there, how he had lost all faith in the country and did not see a good future for himself if he stayed.
At the time I thought to myself that he was being a bit dramatic, but the more I read about how the US is treating its people these days the more I think understand what he was on about.
He made the move, btw.
Those that can leave are the lucky ones.... Some of us are too "worthless" for other countries to accept so we're stuck here...
Whether it's income requirements or specialized industry/educational requirements, "uneducated" poor scumbags like myself are stuck in this bat shit crazy country... I wish I could leave.
I think I might've had a hard time not judging him for sharing that in an interview. Good on you for not.
He said he's in Norway. They're not known for being shy about knowing they're better off.
This is why I moved. People look at me like I have 4 heads when I describe some things.
I hope these reports are taken very seriously.
But they won't though.
Sad but true
Taking a page out of the IDF playbook. (Unsurprisingly).
I mean none of them were r*ped or summarily executed so they must still be on the first page. Lol
Fascist pigs.
Just like the iSSraeli war criminals they're defending
Yes show an entire generation what unchecked police forces do at an early age so its nice and memorable so they come after you and dismantle you when they come to power.
Like spraying people with fire hoses in the 1960s?
It's on us to make sure these protestors get elected. Them coming to power is no more guaranteed than it was with hippies.
That is pretty messed up.
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The laaaaannnnnd of the freeeeee...
The NYPD is committing some crimes... Just like the iSSraeli fascists they're defending.
Of course they did, fucking ACAB assholes.
Wow it’s such a low bar and yet somehow the police always manage to sneak under it
Students losing their Constitutional Rights? Quick! Shoot up an Elementary School so I can PRETEND to care about the Constitution Again!
College kids discover what it's like to be a poor Black man😂
This isn't because they're protesters. This is just how cops treat all prisoners. Fucking pigs.
ITT nobody who's ever been to central booking without food and water for a week bc they give you rotten warm bologna and cheese and milk with a single toilet in the middle of a room with 800 guys. Ivy kids can afford to pay to fix their problems. Boohoo
The denied water part seems strange. Most American jails have water fountain toilet combos like this:
That is not a general population holding cell. That is the nicest jail cell I have seen.
I've been in cells without toilets or water. They're designed for temporary holding (an hour or so), for things like waiting on transportation or intake, for example.
Wtf do you mean by most?
Why do so many take articles like this at face value?
The students who were arrested and sent to jail reported to the two staff members afterwards who then reported to a student-reporter who attends the same University and is a protestoer herself and none of this is biased? All of this is third-person and we need more sources other than the students themselves.
Everyone who leaves jail complains about the treatment. But now they can now go back to protesting peacefully because it is their right and I'm okay with that, just the vandalism.
Edit: are we really pretending that a student isn't an adult? They are adults and not children, right? Where are they supposed to put grown adult college students? Student jail?
Edit 2: Gosh, we really don't like pointing out that they were privileged University students that have probably never seen a jail cell and probably. Even the journalist who wrote this is a student from City University.
The conditions we’re hearing about are inhumane,” Mitra told The Intercept. “They take away the dignity of every person in there.”
That's ironic.
Protests against Vietnam war destroyed far more shit. This is like the least shit destroying protest in history.
eloquently put /s/
Pointless vandalism is still pointless, but at least the antiwar protests in the US were by US citizens and were primarily about opposition to US involvement in a conflict US soldiers had no business being in because there were no US assets at stake.
These protesters have unrealistic expectations and goals. Just look at the divesting demands. Due to their age, very few of these college kids understand the reality of where the money they want divested is/going/coming from. Direct investments rarely reflect the full scope of a college's portfolio. Divest from Google, Apple, and Nike then but they won't ditch their smart phones or shoes.
I thought they would have learned about this stuff in college.
How were they supposed to inform someone while being in a fucking jail cell?
Of course they can only report things afterwards.
First, the point is that the only information comes from a student--journalist (who attends the same University mentioned) who interviewed the two teachers feom the same University who spoke to the students who didn't like jail.
Secondly, would it surprise you that everyone in jail has access to a phone?
Every protester in there is innocent from the perspective of the government. No trials have occurred. People like you justifying whatever happens are why police can get away with regular and repeated violations of the Constitution.
How do so many people lack reading comprehension?
Where did I justify anything? I simply stated facts and pointed out that the article is written by a student who attended the protest and goes to school at City U. And I said that now they can go protest peacefully, which is their right.
And it doesn't matter whose perspective it is. The students were arrested, spent a night in jail, and were released. Minor charges if they don't get dropped. This story is full of students complaining about how shitty jail was and stretching the truth.
Do you honestly believe the students, while in admitted general pop, somehow were singled out and not fed? I promise you that those students were forgotten by staff the moment the were booked and treated just like everyone else, which is what the students in the article are complaining about:
The conditions we’re hearing about are inhumane,” Mitra told The Intercept. “They take away the dignity of every person in there.”
Yeah, that's jail in most cities.
I just wonder why literally no one is reporting on this if even some of it has truth.