Police cracked down on striking drivers in Queens who blocked deliveries.

From the article: In December 19 thousands of Amazon workers organizing with the Teamsters launched a cascade of unfair practice strikes from coast to coast at the logistics giant.

At the picket line in Queens, New York, police arrested and released Anthony Rosario, a Teamsters organizer, and Jogernsyn Cardenas, one of the striking workers, and then threatened mass arrests before breaking the line in two to allow vans through.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    165·
    3 days ago

    Someone correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t striking become less violent and destructive because we all agreed to gentleman’s rules?

    Rules the NYPD just broke?

    They’re forgetting the lessons we all learned in the gilded age.

  • Mojave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    95·
    3 days ago

    The second arrest was of Anthony Rosario, Teamsters organizer and former UPS driver who was a leader in the 1997 UPS strike.

    Rosario says he and the workers were complying with police officers’ demand to let one truck through every two to three minutes. When police began trying to let more trucks through, he says, he “continued to walk, using my right … and you know, they just decided to arrest me.

    I’d love to see the charge

      • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
        51·
        2 days ago

        It’s shocking how many people upvoted this incorrect information. You can’t ONLY be charged with resisting, you must be charged with an initial crime and then instructed that you’re being placed under arrest before you can be charged as having resisted. Cops try to act like it’s the opposite probably hundreds of times a day across the US, but it’s just one more lie among the rest they tell and it doesn’t hold in court.

        • Wolf314159@startrek.websiteEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          You might eventually and with some great expense (even if you have a public defender, jail isn’t cheap for poor people), but you won’t beat the ride. They can and will destroy your life and livelihood with a trumped up charge for little more than knowing your rights. It doesn’t matter if the charge sticks, the injustice has been done and freedom has been trampled.

          • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            Definitely not always and a court appointed one will do, but yeah, this is another case where cops can arbitrarily ruin people’s lives and livelihoods.

            • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              Ruin lives = more extremists with nothing to lose.

              Im always scared of court system. Buddies dad went 6 months on 1st time Misdemeanor defending a women from SA. Judge said he felt no remorse. Like no sh#!.

      • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        2 days ago

        Except resting arrest is not a standalone crime. It has been rules many times that resting arrest can only be used if they are resting a legal arrest action.

        Now, it doesn’t stop cops from using it to remove someone from a location but the resisting arrest charge will always be dropped.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    128·
    3 days ago

    I do believe that that old, traditional folk song applies here.

    Written by the troubadours O’Shea Jackson, Lorenzo Patterson, and Tracy Curry, it goes something like this:

    Fuck the police, fuck fuck
    Fuck the police, fuck fuck
    Fuck the police, fuck the, fuck the
    Fuck the police

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        20·
        3 days ago

        I don’t get it…

        It only makes sense to bootlick if you get rewared for it but some how we got majority of America doing it.

        They got woke to the culture wars but never to the class 🤡

        • Brickhead92@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          2 days ago

          But to them, they are rewarded. They get to beat and even kill minorities and poor people without consequences.

        • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          That’s what happens when (at least) half of the country exclusively gets their news from one corrupt source

          • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
            7·
            2 days ago

            Bootlickers are heavy on both sides…

            But sure the red is more likely to bootlick due to daddy worship ideology

            • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              2 days ago

              That’s fair. I cringe every time I hear my firmly-Democrat-voting family try to defend the establishment because they’ve watched Law & Order for several hours, every week, for at LEAST the last 30 years