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"Let them eat Cake!"Video: Maskless NYPD officer shoves masked man out of Manhattan subway station
GREENWICH VILLAGE, Manhattan — A maskless NYPD officer shoved a man through the emergency exit of a Manhattan subway after an apparent confrontation over face coverings, video shows. A subway…
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Ah, so because a customer asked the people they are paying to employ through fares and taxes to follow their own rules, they were wrong? And that makes it okay to assualt that customer by grabbing their shirt and shoving them? Hilarious. The announcements in stations and trains to wear a mask get annoying because they play so often. There's signage everywhere. It's in the MTA's twitter name.
I think the rule said they had to be masked when interfacing with the public. To me, that would include anytime they were out on the platform. If they want to take them off when they're in their squad car, or in some area not open to the public, that's fine.
Yeah, no. That's not how any of this works. The mask mandate means "wear the damn mask".
hahahaha clearly you don't know the mafia that is the NYPD. But I agree.
Lots of assumptions here.
You mean the officers who violated city regulations on wearing masks? Had they been wearing masks as required or had they immediately put on their masks before an supposed longer altercation or before any escalation, there likely would have been a different outcome. Too many police officers contribute to the problem instead of calmly resolving it no matter how much in the wrong they are. I've seen it over and over again, even while volunteering with the local sheriff's department. They suffer from TGS - Tough Guy Syndrome.
It doesn't have to result in a fall or injury for it to be assault. It's assault.
No, everyone is supposed to wear masks while on trains and inside enclosed stations. AT. ALL. TIMES. That is the rule. The cops were not in the right in any part of this. Also, COVID can linger in the air in an enclosed space for quite a while depending on the ventilation. So yeah, being mask-less in an empty train car should result in a fine.
I think it may be a question of definition. I once saw a security guard take off a mask for something like 20 seconds to drink some water while being far away from anybody else and a woman went ballistic at him for not having a mask.
Heck, you can just accidentally **touch** somebody, and it can be considered "assault."
Moreover, it would appear that there can be two offenses if the officer lacked justification for what he did, assault and battery
Where I live pushing someone against their will would normally be considered assault but police enjoy qualified immunity which means they live by different set of rules on duty. Briefly touching someone by legitimate accident is not normally considered assault but it could still get you fired in an at-will state like mine.
I checked NY Penal Law. NY state law definitions of crimes differ substantially from the common-law meanings of the words.
Yeah, that's what I meant. I'm not sure what the legal definition of assault is; I was just stating my opinion as what a "normal" person might think when they hear the word assault. I think of being hit or pushed down. And then there's context. The same push force might knock certain people down, but not others or even most. Happily, this person did not get knocked down by the push force the police officer was exerting on him.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the transit company is requiring all people to wear masks at indoor stations and on board trains. So they were required to, whether or not it's a law as they were on the premises.
