NYC City Council Overrides Bloomberg Veto (34-15) of Anti Stop&Frisk Measure. El Bloombito Fails!

[kpete]

New York City City Council Overrides Bloomberg Veto of Anti Stop&Frisk Measure. El Bloombito Fails!

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NYC Council voted 34-15 to overturn @MikeBloomberg's veto of 1080, which will end RACIAL PROFILING in #StopAndFrisk! YES!
12:31 PM - 22 Aug 2013

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/22/1233109/-New-York-City-City-Council-Overrides-Bloomberg-Veto-of-Anti-Stop-Frisk-Measure-El-Bloombito-Fails

[hrmjustin]

1. Good!

[enigmatic]

2. Excellent news! n/t

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended for at least a modicum of respect for the Fourth Amendment.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. "El Bloombito"

LOL!

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Superb! :)

[Luminous Animal]

6. Yeah!

[X_Digger]

7. Thank you NYCLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and council members..

.. who kept this issue up front and out of the weeds.

Did you catch the story linked in this diary?

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130716/jamaica-hollis/bloomberg-scouted-gop-candidates-oust-weprin-after-stop-and-frisk-vote

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Michael Bloomberg targeted Queens City Councilman Mark Weprin in retaliation for his support of two bills aimed at reining in the NYPD, sources told DNAinfo New York.
...
Bloomberg aide Howard Wolfson was “actively making the phone calls and making the last-ditch effort to find a viable candidate to run” against Weprin, said one Queens Republican insider.
...
Since the passage of the CSA, Weprin and a number of his colleagues have suffered political repercussions over their votes. The Patrolman’s Benevolent Association sent out a mailing and leafleted the districts of Weprin and his Manhattan colleagues, Councilmembers Jessica Lappin and Daniel Garodnick. The Detectives Endowment Association revoked its endorsement of Brooklyn Councilmember Sara Gonzalez and others over their support of the bills.

[truebluegreen]

8. Finally! We won one!

[AnotherMcIntosh]

9. Good, but too bad they can't put him in prison for violating the civil rights of so many people.

If given the opportunity to be President, there's no doubt that he would be another war criminal.

[christx30]

11. He's so anti-democracy

he'd probably try to have you arrested for not voting for him.
I'd be sitting right there beside you though.

[meow2u3]

18. Gloom-and-Doomberg the Tyrant of New York

Watch him try to keep up the now illegal racial profiling under the guise of stop and frisk. I wouldn't put it past this ogre.

[rhett o rick]

10. Good news. Thanks for posting. nm

[arthritisR_US]

12. About bloody time!

[Bette Noir]

13. Can we get rid of that "El Bloombito" crap?

"El Bloombito" is a racial stereotype created on Twitter, ostensibly for purposes of comedy.

[mountain grammy]

14. Over 100 years ago, my family emigrated to NYC to get away from "stop and frisk"

in Poland. They were Jewish. In America, white privilege abounds, so Jewish, not such a big deal. A policy is discriminatory, Mr. Mayor, when a specific group of people are singled out for inspection and worse. We have a Constitution, but white privilege is still the rule.
Good for the NYC Council.

[joeybee12]

15. I can't figure out how Quinn voted...

She supported the inspector general option but opposed the bill? As much as I'd love to see NYC elect an openly gay mayor, I don't want it to be her...she is just too buddy-buddy with Bloomberg.

[99th_Monkey]

16. Bloomberg eats crow. Look out for those bones Mike. ~nt

[G_j]

17. Great news!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

19. Bloomberg is such a mixed bag. Sadly his good causes are badly harmed by the bad ones.

[DeSwiss]

20. Off with their heads!!!!

- K&R