{"id":2924,"date":"2020-02-12T18:36:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2020-02-12T18:36:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:36:01","slug":"up-against-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2924","title":{"rendered":"Up Against The Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/bloomberg2020poster\/bloomberg2020poster.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/bloomberg2020poster\/bloomberg2020poster650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"990\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is pretty much my prediction for the New York Primary,<\/strong> based on the revelations from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kimt.com\/content\/news\/Audio-tape-surfaces-of-Bloomberg-says-minority-neighborhoods-are-where--567768611.html\" target=\"_blank\">recording of former New York City Overlord<\/a> and prospective White House purchaser Mike Bloomberg leaked by blogger and podcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjaminPDixon\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Dixon,<\/a> in which Bloomberg defends NYC&#8217;s horrific &#8220;stop and frisk&#8221; measures directed at poor communities and communities of color in NYC.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RIx58fz17hA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, anyway, I&#8217;m for real serious about this. I&#8217;ll bet you for real that on New York Primary day, the NYPD are going to be stopping&#8217;n&#8217;frisking black people on their way to the polls, throwing &#8217;em to the wall, and snatching their voter registration cards.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not joking, folks. Get yer money out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/bloomberg2020poster\/bloomberg2020poster.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.4mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty much my prediction for the New York Primary, based on the revelations from a recording of former New York City Overlord and prospective White House purchaser Mike Bloomberg leaked by blogger and podcaster Benjamin Dixon, in which Bloomberg defends NYC&#8217;s horrific &#8220;stop and frisk&#8221; measures directed at poor communities and communities of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[958,734,7,10,132],"tags":[1032,383,1033],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-black-lives-matter","category-elections","category-media","category-party-animals","tag-bloomberg","tag-nypd","tag-stop-and-frisk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}