New York governor considers face-mask ban on subway to deter crime
New York governor considers face-mask ban on subway to deter crime
Kathy Hochul has not shared policy details or exemptions but said she is motivated by alleged antisemitic attacks
New York governing authorities are attempting to make the subways into a zone full of police and surveillance. There has been no substantial decrease in safety on the subway. The subways themselves are behind on maintenance but money is going to cops instead of the transit authority. In addition, despite the normalization, there is still actually a pandemic going on that masks prevent the spread of.
I am curious to know the real reasons for the push. Possibly to privatize the subway? Just a grift for cops? At some point in the various administrations there are strategists presenting options and executives making decisions.
Just your standard reactionary authoritarian stuff, plus the NYPD I'm sure prefers a mask ban.
Decrease civilian crime in favour of state crime. Woo.
Next: pants will be banned in the subway to curb public urination for easier id
Fucking hate morons who are using the suffering in Palestine as an excuse to commit hate crimes here.
Agreed, if that happened it would be a tragedy. Instead Zionists use their out-sized influence within the federal, state and local governments to ban protesting of the genocidal state of Israel calling it antisemitism.
Is that really happening?
Yes, it is. Nazis co-opting legitimate protests to spread hate is absolutely happening. That doesn't mean we should stop protesting Israel.
This is especially devastating when WFH is being rescinded and more and more people need to commute.
That's some fair weather governing IMHO
“We will not tolerate individuals using masks to evade responsibility for criminal or threatening behavior,” Hochul said on Thursday, adding that “on a subway, people should not be able to hide behind a mask to commit crimes”.
Maybe she should consider addressing the committing crimes part instead of the wearing masks part.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But she has said that she is motivated to act by “a group donning masks that took over a subway car, scaring riders and chanting things about [Nazi dictator Adolf] Hitler and wiping out Jews”.
Hochul may have been referring to a recent episode involving a pro-Palestinian rally in which a man led a small group on a New York City subway car in chanting: “Raise your hands if you’re a Zionist – this is your chance to get out.”
The potential move comes close to four years after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic during which New Yorkers initially struggled to obtain enough masks to slow the spread of the virus.
Masks then became a defining feature of the era, but recommendations to wear them have been dropped as protective vaccines have become available and the rate of spread has slowed.
New York has historically had a push-and-pull relationship with face coverings dating to 1845, when they were banned in response to attacks by tenant farmers on landlords.
Hochul, who last week put on hold a plan to charge drivers for entering lower Manhattan over concerns it could interfere with the city’s ongoing economic recovery, said the mask issue was “complex”.
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