me and police brutality in Tompkins

Yes, I did experience police brutality in Tompkins Square Park -- a very young big huge muscular police man laughed at me.

Ouch!

The only way I can cope is a sense of humor and the Mae West in me is coming out full force so hey mr. young big police man, when I am mayor, even though you are tall enough and handsome enough you are not going to be one of my bodyguards!

I voted for mayor Bloomberg twice not understanding he was going to destroy this city with over the top community crushing development so fast it has endangered our safety with infrastructure and construction  tragedies/fiasco's and more is to come. I did not understand the mayor was not going to be the mayor of the people but he is the mayor of NYU and the mayor of this destructive tsunami of development.

The only feature Mike Bloomberg has that has been greatly enhanced since he became mayor is his huge NYPD bodyguards that surround him like a wall.  When I had my chat with the mayor on the steps of city hall they were cool and gave us space.   When the mayor quickly got the jist of my feelings for his support of NYU he walked away and he and his huge bodyguards heard me yell this, "Honor our FIRE POLICE  and EMS downtown at the WTC site!!!"  Something like that and I asked for a raise for the NYPD and FDNY in the New York Times that directly addressed the mayor and I was published in The Wall St. Journal "Betrayal at Ground Zero" which again talks about honoring our rescue workers down town.

Tonight in Tompkins remembering the riots was peaceful and that includes the NYPD and that is they way it should be.  

The video footage from 20 years ago is devastating and young kids here tonight did not know about it.   No one here was anti-police in fact I think we are all pro-community.  What is amazing is some people have had their teeth knocked out and knees stomped on and they have no bad feelings towards the police.  Our community has come along way towards healing but of course the question is -- will the community survive?  

I have admiration and compassion for the NYPD but I also have seen some of the video footage and put it this way, I am glad the police officers today representing the 9th Precinct were layed back and cool as much as people had a great time and one of the terrific people running the show spoke powerful words about saving our community, about shopping in small stores and not mega stores and picking up litter!!!!  Anyone who reads my blog knows how I feel about litter bugs.

The stresses of the city, politics, what feels like corruption,  NYC politics feel incestuous and a club -- an orgy of admiration club as the people continue getting crushed as gentrification becomes supersification people are getting crushed with higher Con Ed bills, higher taxes to come, higher prices at the supermarket, the gas pump so the biggest crush in NYC is coming, so say bye bye.

I continue to feel drunk with exhaustion, I try to keep my eyes on my cats as they sit outside on our terrace which is hard.   Just bounced my iphone on the ground again.   I had Karl and 5 other guys protectively point to my iphone  on the ground at Tompkins.  I really need to get away with my cats asap but it isn't easy.   My inner beauty switch is off.  It was just great to feel the love from community members especially in Peter's Bakery, more on that to come.