Professor With A Machete?
What should be happening now -- and isn't
So a professor at a City-funded school in New York destroyed student materials — distribution of which was reportedly sanctioned by the school — and then chased a NY Post reporting team with a machete.
Must be a Tuesday.
But why aren’t the following two things happening?
Disturbing video shows machete-wielding NYC professor chase Post staffers down street
The Post Reporters Need To File A Criminal Complaint
The NYPD will likely not make an arrest on this unless the Post reporters file a complaint at the local precinct. They need to, asap.
Otherwise, even though she’s been “relieved of her duties” at Hunter, this teacher will undoubtedly turn up at another NYC-funded school (esp. since the lunatic teachers’ union is backing her up).
Aside from the danger she poses, does anyone not think her political views color the way she teaches and grades? (And as an art “teacher” — can you imagine the twaddle she considers “art”?)
The charges I see are:
Stalking 2 (E felony);
Menacing 2 (A misdemeanor); and
Criminal Possession of a Weapon (A Misdemeanor).
Then the investigating detectives need to get a search warrant to recover the machete from her apartment — along with any other contraband that may be in “plain view.” (Somehow, I suspect there will be some).
The Two Students Need To Sue
Additionally, the two students who were harassed by this woman need to sue Hunter and New York City for a violation of their First Amendment constitutional rights. This was suppression of speech, pure and simple, at a government facility, by an agent of the government.
Recovery could come not only from the city but from this teacher personally — meaning that if she does recover from her reported pending lawsuit against the NYPD (what a shock), she may have to hand that windfall over.
Depending on this teacher’s work history, the students might also be able to recover from the teachers’ union.
Otherwise, this person will be teaching somewhere else soon — while she waits for her payout from her own pending lawsuit (a common income stream for the activist class in this town, by the way).
The First Amendment cuts both ways. Does anyone think this teacher and her fellow travelers wouldn’t be suing everyone in sight were the situation reversed?
We can all do without another class in “Marxism And Fingerpainting.” This teacher should not be on the city payroll.
People CAN fight back against stuff like this (here’s what it looks like). If we don’t… we deserve what we get.
And in New York City: we’re getting it. All day, every day.
The Most Valuable Six Words On Earth
As New York State Governor Hochul is now resorting to housing migrants in state university dorms (what’s Spanish for, “kegger?”), NYC Mayor Eric Adams is launching a desperate bid to rescind the city’s untenable “right to shelter” law.
“New York City cannot single-handedly provide care to everyone crossing our border,” said Adams in a statement, defending the move from what will likely be a horde of outraged activists (some with machetes, I’ll bet).
Mr. Mayor, never fear. I’ve got your back.
To cure the city’s pending budget shortfall for 2024, just utter these six magic words:
“We. Are. Not. A. Sanctuary. City.”
The ongoing migrant influx is projected to cost NYC roughly $4.3 billion. By that calculus, that phrase is worth roughly $700 million per word.
Oh, and here’s another idea: the MTA estimates that fare-beating on the subway and buses costs the city about $700 million. So let’s add:
“We. Will. Enforce. Fare. Beating.”
$700 million. That one’s about $140 million per word.
All told, I just saved New York $5 billion!
The budget is balanced.
My work here is done.
I Swear, It’s Not The Babylon Bee
New York City is going to target escalating quality-of-life crimes — whose common denominator is generally serial shoplifting — by putting kiosks in the stores most-often ripped off. The kiosks are designed to inform shoplifters of public benefit programs available to them.
Kiosks. Right.
This is how this will end up: the kiosks will be the entry point for a whole series of new public welfare rip-offs by thieves who know the system better than the administrators who run them.
I rarely arrested a perp who didn’t have a slew of public benefit cards — all in different names. And use of these funds is never as hoped. I rarely arrested a perp who didn’t have a better phone than I had. As cops, we used to learn the latest gadgets from the arrestees (I recall seeing my first Blackberry this way).
The plan — known as the Precision Repeat Offender Program (PROP) — is a hail Mary move, for two reasons:
Without undoing bail reform, nothing will change;
With Rikers closing, the city’s prisoner bed-count goes down another 40%.
The Mayor knows he needs something to work — or he can kiss re-election goodbye.
Memo to Eric: This ain’t it.
This is getting embarrassing.
Run Away! Run Away!
West coast techies — i.e, rich & woke — have had enough of the dystopia they’ve created along America’s left coast. They’re now fleeing to London — where they are apparently that city’s leading home-buyers.
Dear Londoners: We’re sorry.
On the other hand, you sent us Harry and Meghan.
