via Erica Joy (http://goo.gl/6WRtt)
via Erica Joy ( http://goo.gl/6WRtt ) Apparently the NYPD has turned Brooklyn into a Constitution free zone. You know, because those freedoms are inconvenient to keeping a docile population. Originally shared by Mathew Tyler Perhaps this is what a police state looks like ? ----- The NYPD Declares Martial Law in Brooklyn "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 ni...