Bedlam in New York

City Journal Audio

Manhattan Institute

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.8 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Seth Barron and Nicole Gelinas discuss the eruption of lawlessness in Midtown Manhattan and other parts of New York City and the inability of Mayor de Blasio and the NYPD to quell the worst criminal violence.

In the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody in Minneapolis, cities across the nation have seen large demonstrations in the last week. Many have degenerated into urban riots, with violence, looting, and property destruction, in a wholesale collapse of public order. In New York City, clashes between protesters and police in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan turned violent over the weekend, followed by fires and looting in midtown and the Bronx on Monday night. Meantime, the city’s elected officials refuse to tell demonstrators to stay home amid the escalating violence and a still-active coronavirus pandemic.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Ten Blocks, the podcast of City Journal.
0:22.8	My name is Seth Barron.
0:24.8	I'm associate editor at City Journal.
0:32.1	Joining me today is Nicole Gelineis, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor to City Journal.
0:33.6	Hi, Nicole.
0:35.3	Good afternoon, Seth.
0:36.4	I hope you're doing well.
0:39.4	Yeah, I'm doing well. We're here to talk about the current civil unrest that's broken out across the country and in New York City. Right now,
0:46.7	as I speak, I hear helicopters buzzing around a few blocks from my house. There's a few thousand
0:51.6	people in Washington Square Park chanting, you know,
0:55.1	with signs saying defund the NYPD, all kinds of vulgarities, which, you know, aren't fit for a
1:02.7	family podcast. And the area every night has been besieged by looters and arson. There was a fire down in my corner the other night.
1:14.7	Police vans have been torched. There's been all kinds of violence. The mayor's daughter was
1:21.7	arrested during a big protest. Nicole, what's your take on what's going on and how is this going to
1:28.8	impact New York City? Well, yeah, I can't say that it's been any better up here. I mean,
1:34.6	I'm probably 30 blocks north of you, just west of Midtown. I took a, we obviously, we had
1:41.9	looting and unrest last night, you know, multiple small skirmishes around here.
1:48.3	And today I walked around and businesses just receiving piles of lumber to just ward up everything.
1:56.8	I mean, hundreds of minority men, essential workers having to go out during a pandemic that's still
2:04.9	raging and board up restaurants, stores, office entrances, cultural organizations all around Midtown
2:12.4	and Times Square.
2:13.5	So, you know, it really looks like a war zone out there.
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