#NYC: No obvious explanation for Governor Kathy Hochul deploying National Guard units with long guns into MTA station platforms. Nor for searching bags by NYPD. Harry Siegel, TheCity.NYC, New York Daily News.
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🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/03/06/hochul-subway-bag-checks/
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| 0:31.0 | I'm John Batchelor. Harry Siegel, a senior editor at The City, an online |
| 0:35.5 | journal I recommend. It's here to explain to me what is happening in Manhattan, particularly |
| 0:41.5 | where I lived happily for 50 years because within these last |
| 0:45.2 | hours the governor of the state Kathy Hokkow has deployed 750 National Guard members |
| 0:52.4 | at the stations to do bag checks. |
| 0:55.0 | However, the puzzle here for me, seeing it on the news, |
| 1:00.0 | seeing still shots and video shots. |
| 1:03.7 | At least some of these National Guards are carrying long guns. |
| 1:09.7 | Harry, a very good evening to you, long guns in Manhattan. I remember something like that in the early days |
| 1:16.5 | of the War on Terror after 9-11, as I would be going to Pennsylvania Station every day because my work at the radio station was |
| 1:24.8 | there. I remember the long guns I remember bag checking in those days and then |
| 1:29.9 | afterwards often because it was usually Governor Cuomo but there were other |
| 1:34.3 | governors around. There would be sometimes long guns at holiday time like |
| 1:40.5 | Christmas or summertime July 4th because it was understood that that |
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