A man was apparently arrested for sleeping on the subway in a rather brutal altercation with the NYPD this month.
Sections 1050.7 (10) and (5) of the Mass Transit Authority’s (MTA) Rules of Conduct state that sleeping on trains is prohibited only “if it is hazardous or interfering with fellow passengers.” One is forbidden to lie down or take up more than one seat, and it is unclear from the video if he was sleeping in an upright position.
Click the link below for more info + video:
NYPD´s Brutal Arrest Of Man Sleeping On The Subway
Still, there is no need to actually arrest someone, taking matters to such extremes, for such a minor offense, even if the man was ‘lying down’.
Our police state is increasing day by day and law enforcement is becoming more brutal, unreasonable and without skill to handle matters through fostering good will. It takes thugs to enforce a police state and continually demand complete submission to authority.
That is insane
This video had been removed so can’t see what went down. I’m a retired cop. Cops come from YOUR society and communities. Are there bad ones? Yes. Are there good ones? Yes. I have seen both. Problem as I see it is letting ambitious, especially politically correct ambitious people, in in ranking positions within police departments. I don’t know what’s on video and how this thing started. In my day however, we wouldn’t be bothering people in these situations unless somebody called police to complain about it demanding action, and/or one of those ambitious incompetents told us to go shoo away the homeless and/or arrest them. When we were sent on these situations, we(the good or should I say SMART cops) usually started a conversation telling them that we were getting complaints from people, some of whom were probably watching us right now to see we were taking action and video taping us as we speak, and could they move somewhere else. There were a few religious church shelters in our town and we would try and take them there if they were sober, maybe to hospital if they were sick or to intoxicated to care for themselves, though the ER’s hated us for this. I used to explain we wouldn’t be $#%&!@*ing with them if we didn’t have our “orders” and at times told them to leave while we were there and after we left we didn’t give a rats ass if they came back. Hey, the place might have been warm and dry and but for the grace of God there go I. And in my 24 yrs this worked most of the time. However, there were always a few who HATED us so much because we were cops, or were white or black or female…whatever and just told us to get $#%&!@*ed they had rights. Video has been deleted. Anybody know what happened from the very start here?
The ny GESTOPO at its best.
So then rise up and fight back quit being cowards
Well, If He seems homeless. Why you won’t help man? Do not complain whoever. God’s message!
police??or gestapo
Ralph Mieszala well said…we see to many things bad cops do..not enough what the good ones do because its not news worthy..thats ashame
Fascist New York….
Nazi gastopo tactics. that guy should sue their ass’s off.
How. Do you sleep brutal