Baraka “was put under arrest inside the facility, walked out when he was told he was under arrest, and then was cuffed,” she said in an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum.
However, Newark City Councilmember Kenyatta Stewart, who was with the mayor at the time of his arrest, rebuked that.
“They invited him in. A Geo security guard actually opened the door for him,” Stewart told The Post. “Then, as we were waiting for the congressman, they asked him to leave, and he did, and they arrested him outside the gate.”
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you know that the mayor doesn’t actually control the cops right
even the chief of police doesn’t
it’s like saying that Obama was president so there should’ve been no lynchings in sundown-flyoversville during that span of time
also Obama bad and if he was any good they wouldn’t have let him in in the first place
Technically, yeah, but a mayor can hold considerable influence over their city’s police departments. I myself have been in situations where a mayor has made a police force do or not do something in partucular.
whatever they did was probably far smaller than eliminating an entire governmental organization that the literal entire police force voted for
they probably gasp actually enforced the law for once in their lives and gave a single one of the 40%ers a slap on the wrist for bodyslamming random passersby or something
Of course, I’m not saying the mayor will be able to utilize a local department to go to war with the feds or something, like they’re his personal army. But mayors do have some control over their local police departments. It’s not totally divorced.
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you know that “formal” authority also doesn’t matter right? Like “formally” in the
there’s supposed to be rule of law, but in “informal reality” you can basically lynch people and as long as you’re the right color in the right place you get off
do you think that a black police chief, or woman, actually has any power whatsoever over a police department? Why haven’t we seen a SINGLE instance of police brutality where the perpetrator was black and the victim was white?
because actual power belongs to numerous decentralized actors who are organized, (like li3uten4nts) not king-like centralized singular leaders. The leader (mayor) is technically complicit in this by being too stupid/too compromised to dismantle his enemies, then again if he were a smart POC he wouldn’t have even been allowed to make the ballot. Even if he were smart though, dismantling the thousands of klan-honkies on the porkforce and getting the average POC to bypass their “moral compass” is a ridiculously steep task, because 99% of people are cattle