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303 NYPD Police Cruisers Damaged by Rioters, $1 Million To Repair

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3 years ago

July 29, 2020

Since the death of George Floyd on May 25, the New York Police Department has had to repair hundreds of cars from damage inflicted by rioters across the city — 14 of the cars were set on fire and totaled.

With 14 totaled, seven are still being repaired, and the remaining cars have already been serviced and returned to the department. The repairs cost New York City taxpayers nearly $1 million.

An NYPD patrol car was set on fire on the Upper West Side, police said.

A vandal busted the driver’s side window of the unoccupied NYPD 2013 Ford Fusion parked at W. 83rd St. and Columbus Ave. and tossed papers inside lit with an accelerant.https://t.co/p0kqYRI67G
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 29, 2020

Two NYPD police cars on fire. Window smashed on banks. Union Square, NYC, now. pic.twitter.com/fAi6BlywCe
— Gabriel Elizondo (@elizondogabriel) May 31, 2020

Can still smell this car burning. Several marked police cars — at least 5 or 6 — have been set on fire in the past hour or so near Union Square and Washington Square Park. #GeorgeFloydProtests #nypd pic.twitter.com/zPDUMF00dx
— Shayna Jacobs (@shaynajacobs) May 31, 2020

Despite the violence towards police excallating, the NYC Comptroller urged Mayor Bill de Blasio To Cut Over $1B In NYPD Funding.

“Shootings were up 130% in the city for the month of June, according to the NYPD,” as reported by the Daily Caller.

The weeks of rioting have resulted in hundreds of cars being vandalized, burned, and smashed. The real losers in the situation seem to be the New York taxpayers.

Israel

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar kicked off House Foreign Affairs Committee

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3 days ago

February 2, 2023

Alexander Carter

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar was voted off the House Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday. The action was expected, as Republican members of Congress had criticized Omar’s antisemetic and anti-American rhetoric.

After intense debating on the House floor, the resolution passed with a 218-211 vote. Democrats attempted to pull the race card, accusing Republican House members of racism for removing Omar from the committee.

Omar also accused House Republicans of racism, saying, “I am Muslim, I am an immigrant, and interestingly, from Africa…Is anyone surprised that I am being targeted? Is anyone surprised that I am somehow deemed unworthy to speak about American foreign policy, or that they see me as a powerful voice that needs to be silenced?”

“There is this idea that you are a suspect if you are an immigrant or if you are from certain parts of the world or certain skin tone or a muslim.” Omar said during the heated debate. A fiery Alexandria Ocasia Cortez also chimed in shouting, “This is an attack on women of color!”

Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, from New York, said she had personally witnessed Omar spew anti-American rhetoric. Malliotakis said, “I have been in that committee room where, the representative, equates Israel and the United States to Hamas and the Taliban. Absolutely unacceptable for a member of that committee.”

A four-page resolution was written for the justification of removing Omar from the house Foreign Affairs Committee. The resolution states that in 2019, Omar suggested that Jewish people were buying U.S. political support when she posted on Twitter, “it’s all about the Benjamins, baby.”

Omar also commented on the September 11th attacks saying, “some people did something.” This type of comment is unacceptable for any representative who is sitting on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, lawmakers said.

In the resolution it states that members of this committee should all be held to an “equal standard of conduct due to the international sensitivities and national security concerns under the jurisdiction of this committee.”