Macy’s? The cops let them loot Macy’s — the Miracle on 34th Street store?
Wow.
Everybody who grew up in this town has at least once ridden the rickety wooden escalator at the center of Macy’s Herald Square — a building almost as iconic to New York City as the Empire State Building. They’ve made movies about them both.
And so a city with 40,000 cops hasn’t the will to station a couple of hundred of them between its cultural heritage — kitschy as it sometimes may seem — and an opportunistic mob?
Shocking and shameful.
The thing with anarchists, with rioters and with looters is that if you give them an inch, they’ll take your city’s soul. And it has been the policy of New York City for several nights now to give them as many inches as they demand.
But when Gotham’s top uniformed cop kneels in solidarity with nihilism — as Chief of Department Terence Monahan did Monday — the nihilists didn’t go home and stream Netflix.
They went out and took another bite from the Big Apple.
And not just at Macy’s. And not just in Midtown. The Bronx was burning Monday night, and suddenly it was 1977 all over again. It’s been going on for days, everywhere — and the pressing question Tuesday afternoon was: What will Wednesday bring?
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https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/cuomo-de-blasio-refusing-to-face-what-rioting-means-for-new-york/
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