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).
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…
I guess this insane police budget is the reason some of those people got rich in the first place.
Hey.
Someone’s getting rich off of all that tactical equipment.
Are they funding a RoboCop program or something? 11 billion. WTF?!
Yes. 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.
Ok the manufacturer was trolling. There’s no way they needed that extra 20 pounds they just wanted it to be 420 pounds.
Bravo 👏🏼
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.pdfI’d love to read a book about the organizational struggles they’ve faced over the years, but I guess that would just be political history… :(
Plus they gotta pay the hundreds of overtime hours “worked” by each cop every month. These guys are so dedicated that they work 26 hours a day, 8 days per week.
And the DSNY has an entire city to clean.
Everybody produces waste. But you only have a small fraction of the population being criminals.
Pensions
Just the robot dogs for now, but I’m sure they’ll be first in line when the tech is available.
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).
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
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
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.
I hope these reports are taken very seriously.
But they won’t though.
Sad but true
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.
This is why I moved. People look at me like I have 4 heads when I describe some things.
I think I might’ve had a hard time not judging him for sharing that in an interview. Good on you for not.
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.
Wow it’s such a low bar and yet somehow the police always manage to sneak under it
The privileged students who were arrested and sent to jail reported to the two staff members afterwards who then reported to a reporter.
All of this is third-person he-said-she-said and I need more sources other than the students themselves who are already assholes for vandalizing the library (protest, don’t destroy shit).
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 NYC jail
I’m objecting to the “that’s simply jail” attitude. Are you struggling with reading comprehension because you’re in a fit of rage right now? Maybe your twelve-year old nephew can help you out.
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 the same students that were arrested.
Secondly, would it surprise you that everyone in jail has access to a phone?
Would it surprise you to know that that isn’t true and phone privileges are easily revoked.
This isn’t the movies, you aren’t entitled to a phone call
It is obvious that you truly have no idea what your are talking about nor have you been inside of a NY jail in any capacity. The police dont keep people from making phone calls, despite your this isnt the movies line of reasoning. It isn’t a conspiracy to silence the protestors, I promise. I’m also sure they would have reported on that so we know they weren’t prevented from making phone calls due to any security reason.
As to your statement, yes, phones calls are subject to reasonable restrictions related to security but, No, they don’t arbitrarily prevent you from using a phone. There are actual phone kiosks in NYC jails. Hell, all jail phone calls have been free since 2019 (Intro 0741, pass by NYC council) from 7am to 11pm.
Then there is New York State Assembly Bill 2023-A6484that allows inmates in state and local correctional facilities to make free, confidential phone calls to attorneys and legal service providers.
Furthermore, Chapter 11-A, Part 2, Title H, Article 120, Section 90, Subsection 8 is the literal law that entitles anyone arrested in the state of New York to communicate by phone. (Link)
In New York, if you arrested or detained, you areblegally entitled to a phone call. But please, go ahead and argue more.
That’s a great point, why wouldn’t they have simply hung out in the phone area calling up the newspapers to complain about food and water while they were in there? That would have made it valid and true compared to post hoc complaints which are invalid and false.
What are you even rambling about? Who said anything about calling up newspapers? My 12 year old nephew has a better reading comprehension then you do.
Yes, invalid conplaints. The linked article literally says, “according to two faculty members.” The entire article and conversation is based on the the third-hand account from these two faculty members after tapking to the students who were arrested who were upset that they spent a day in jail. Sort of strange that not a single other newspaper or online publication is reporting on this though.
Also keep in mind that this article was written by a student from City University. The same University that is mentioned in the article. But of course, there is no way the student-reporter is biased at all.
These aren’t facts. It is fact that I was kept from a phone call when arrested recently. That would prove everything you are saying is just utter bullshit. It was 16 hours before they even booked me. They simply “forgot.” It wasn’t busy. They ordered pizzas and sat around and chatted. You speak like an authority on something you clearly don’t know about. Time I was supposed to be held, 4 hours. Amount it would cost to sue or charge them for breaking laws/regulations, far more than I could ever afford. The only advice I keep getting is to plead guilty to something I didn’t do.
Keep spewing what you want to believe is how things work, it won’t make it real though.
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 the conflict.
These protesters have unrealistic expectations and goals. Just look at the divesting demands. 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.
Trespassing, vandalism, and yelling at people is far easier that learning about economics I guess.
Funny how the divesting demands are working at several schools thus far, and funny how the violence and vandalism seem to only be happening at schools that decided to send the
jackbooted thugsPolice in to crack skulls and beat people for wrongthink.Weird how you have completely omitted the polices typical escalation and unnecessary violence from your whinging and denigration of these “kids”
This isn’t the flex you think it is.
Only one college, Evergreen State College, has “agreed” so far to divest any holdings linked with Israel. A few others, like Brown and Northwestern University, have simply said that they will disclose their investment exposure to Israel at a later time.
And Evergreen’s memorandum that was released by the school simply stated that the student encampment will end in exchange for the school looking into its investments and possibly divesting from Israel. Looking into & possibly divesting
These are what they call stall tactics.
And stop pretending the protestors didn’t spray paint free gaza, free palestine and intifada this and that all over the walls in the library. That’s pointless vandalism, not protesting.
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.
Students losing their Constitutional Rights? Quick! Shoot up an Elementary School so I can PRETEND to care about the Constitution Again!
Of course they did, fucking ACAB assholes.
The NYPD is committing some crimes… Just like the Israeli fascists they’re defending.
It’s terrifying how quickly and uniformly LEO’s across the country adjusted their tactics after the George Floyd protests.
The laaaaannnnnd of the freeeeee…
