Baraka “was put under arrest inside the facility, walked out when he was told he was under arrest, and then was cuffed,” she said in an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum.
However, Newark City Councilmember Kenyatta Stewart, who was with the mayor at the time of his arrest, rebuked that.
“They invited him in. A Geo security guard actually opened the door for him,” Stewart told The Post. “Then, as we were waiting for the congressman, they asked him to leave, and he did, and they arrested him outside the gate.”
Enlighten me. What individual has ultimate formal authority over the city cops? Are they an autonomous collective? Does the abstract concept of racism sign their timesheets?
…it’s not at all like saying that, because the two things aren’t analogous. Being president is not equivalent to being the mayor of every municipality in sundown-flyoversville. To entertain your unrelated hypothetical: the office of imperial president could absolutely use the armed forces under their direct control (the military, FBI, marshals, etc.) to physically stop just about any ongoing activity by a tax paying American company inside the territorial boundaries of the US if that’s something the president wanted to do. That Obama personally didn’t and wouldn’t do that to “stop all lynchings” or whatever is obvious, but it’s because he personally didn’t want to do that, not because his office lacked the ability.
That the mayor of Newark chose to engineer his own arrest by a private company inside his own jurisdiction is not evidence that the mayor is an uwu smol bean that has no power over any of the people that work for him or do business in his city, it’s evidence that the mayor of Newark was less interested in using any of the power of his office than he was in creating theater to use in future campaign ads when he runs for governor.
you know that “formal” authority also doesn’t matter right? Like “formally” in the
there’s supposed to be rule of law, but in “informal reality” you can basically lynch people and as long as you’re the right color in the right place you get off
do you think that a black police chief, or woman, actually has any power whatsoever over a police department? Why haven’t we seen a SINGLE instance of police brutality where the perpetrator was black and the victim was white?
because actual power belongs to numerous decentralized actors who are organized, (like li3uten4nts) not king-like centralized singular leaders. The leader (mayor) is technically complicit in this by being too stupid/too compromised to dismantle his enemies, then again if he were a smart POC he wouldn’t have even been allowed to make the ballot. Even if he were smart though, dismantling the thousands of klan-honkies on the porkforce and getting the average POC to bypass their “moral compass” is a ridiculously steep task, because 99% of people are cattle