Russian-speaking community of New York created patrols to protect the city from marauders - ForumDaily
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Russian-speaking community of New York created patrols to protect the city from marauders

The authors of the initiative do not like what is happening now in New York. They also believe that the police “tied their hands” and do not give the opportunity to protect civilians, when it is so necessary. Therefore, they decided to take the initiative and create patrols to protect against looters. In just one night, more than 500 people joined the group. This publication writes «РИА Новости».

“We want it to stop soon”

To protect the streets of New York from the actions of provocateurs and looters hiding under the guise of protesters over the murder of African-American George Floyd, the Russian-speaking community of Brooklyn began to form their own patrols. One of the authors of the initiative, Isaac Boltyansky, explained what exactly they want to achieve with this. “We want this to stop as soon as possible. We want to unite our voices and ask that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio give the police the right to use the force and skill they are required to demonstrate,” Boltyansky said.

The idea of ​​creating popular patrols belongs to two activists.

We created a chat on WhatsApp, invited friends and gathered more than 500 people exactly overnight. We have not only Russian speakers - there are Jews, Muslims, Christians. But mostly Russian-speaking,” the activist said. “We have everyone who wants to stick together and prevent this from happening in our part of Brooklyn.” We don’t want this to happen anywhere at all.”

The main goal pursued by activists is to restore order in New York, primarily in Manhattan and the Bronx.

The group members have already started patrolling in their area. “We asked people to go out into the street and look carefully, for example, to see if there are objects hidden somewhere in the area that could be used with malicious intent during protests,” Boltyansky explained.

Let's say activists are looking for caches of stones and Molotov cocktails. “We ask that people do this and pay attention to what is going on around them,” he added.

The activists do not carry firearms. Their only weapons are phones, which can be used to call the police if something suspicious is noticed. “But if it suddenly happens that the police cannot protect us, people are ready to defend themselves, their family, their business, their lives,” he said.

“The police need to be given more freedom”

Earlier, the activist recalled, the mayor called on the police to exercise maximum restraint. The right of self-defense was even taken away from the police - after all, the very situation when an officer points a weapon at a protester, according to Bill de Blasio, is unacceptable.

Boltyansky recalled an incident when a brick was thrown at a cop’s head. “Only after that did another policeman take out his weapon, because they were already preparing to tear them into pieces,” Boltyansky explained. “And after that the mayor still says that they will study this incident, that maybe this policeman should be fired. This is completely unfair."

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The problem is that peaceful protests are used by some as an excuse for profit. Protesters simply break into stores and rob them.

“And the police should have the right to treat them like any other criminals,” the author of the initiative emphasized.

This happened on Monday evening, June 1. The marauders, who were walking in a column of protesters, suddenly began to smash down storefronts on the central streets of Manhattan. In a matter of minutes, they took out clothes, household appliances, and decorations from the premises.

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