The NYPD Declares Martial Law in Brooklyn

100s of protesters in Brooklyn display anger at NYPD shooting 16-year-old

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Gregory Malandrucco

A woman is dragged during a protest against the shooting of Kimani Gray, March 13, 2013 in the East Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn,

New York City. (Photo by AP)

On the heels of three nights of protests over the police slaying of 16 year old Kimani Gray, the NYPD has turned the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn into a State of Exception, claiming emergency powers to suspend the constitutional guarantees of the citizenry.

The people regularly targeted by police harassment and violence, overwhelmingly the city’s poor and minority populations, have taken to the streets to speak out against the NYPD’s draconian tactics. The police have in turn responded with even further harsh measures by suppressing the right of the people to voice dissatisfaction with that very same police force.

Cops kettled protesters at Wednesday night’s candlelight vigil, resulting in 46 arrests. Police even arrested Kimani Gray’s distraught sister, Mahnefeh.

The NYPD euphemistically calls the public spaces in which the Constitutional rights of the people are suspended “frozen zones.”

Allison Kilkenny wrote about the NYPD’s so-called “frozen zones” in December 2011:

“The ‘frozen zone’ is an arbitrary, official police business-sounding title that has absolutely zero legal merit. It’s something the NYPD made up, just as the ‘First Amendment zone’ is something [Los Angeles Mayor Antonio] Villaraigosa made up to suppress media coverage of the Occupy raids.”

According to FIERCE, the “frozen zone” in East Flatbush is being used to prevent media from covering the protests and arrests. Meanwhile, people inside the “frozen zone” can be subjected to arrest merely by exercising their constitutional rights.

More here: http://uscop.org/the-nypd-declares-martial-law-in-brooklyn/

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Comment by ted dura on March 15, 2013 at 10:33am: time these people woke up to police brutality and having their rights infringed--

time to burn the city down--that will bring them to their knees real quick--

their is nothing more life changing than the power of the match !

Comment by Marquez Harris on March 15, 2013 at 10:35am: I hope every police officer/overseer dies in Brooklyn. Karma's a menstruating bitch!!!

Comment by DTOM on March 15, 2013 at 10:48am: The question is, is this going to serve as the excuse Cuomo needs to start door-to-door gun confiscations?

Comment by James μολὼν λαβέ on March 15, 2013 at 10:48am: The NYPD has declared a portion of Flatbush a “Frozen Zone”
Friday, March 15, 2013 6:28 AM

The NYPD has declared a portion of Flatbush a “Frozen Zone”, meaning media are not allowed in and people can be subjected to arrest for not following police orders. It basically means the area is under temporary martial law. The last times the NYPD declared a Frozen Zone was on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and during the beginning of OWS.

Comment by steve gaylord on March 15, 2013 at 11:14am: That's Bloomberg's private army for ya... Hell, the NYPD has nine stations in foreign cities including Tel Aviv.

Comment by Scott W on March 15, 2013 at 11:18am: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=...

Comment by Mike Petkus on March 15, 2013 at 12:08pm: I feel for everyone in NYC, it is a Berlin type city (circa 1971 East Germany), except Berlin may have had more rights. Either 2 things will work:

Get more people in that city to protest city wide, and totally shut the place down just like East Germany's resident finally did (no garbage, no resteraunts, no service, no gas stations) , until Bloomberg and his goon force walk off the job

Or...move out.

Only speaking to them in terms of economy will get your freedom back. These people can't live on fake interest made up in a computer forever.

Peace.

Comment by Sweettina2 on March 15, 2013 at 3:21pm: Right on Steve! NY has been commie since day one. Bloomberg thinks he is a dictator, and he is! Nothing but evil.

Comment by Karim9010 on March 15, 2013 at 3:49pm: Marquez Harris

You the biggest piece of liberal pro-criminal garbage in this page!...please go kill yourself.