{"id":11444,"date":"2014-07-22T15:51:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T22:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=11444"},"modified":"2014-07-22T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T22:51:26","slug":"bpericadams-is-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/bpericadams-is-an-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"@BPEricAdams is an idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/07\/22\/i_cant_breathe_police_overreach_eric_garner_and_the_chokehold_of_racism\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11446\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/bpericadams-is-an-idiot\/candles-are-seen-at-the-memorial-of-garner-in-staten-island\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/eric_garner_memorial.jpg?fit=620%2C412&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"620,412\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;REUTERS&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Candles are seen at the memorial of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, July 21, 2014. Garner, who was suspected of selling untaxed cigarettes, died after New York police put him in a chokehold. The cause of Garner&#039;s death is still being determined by the city&#039;s medical examiner. REUTERS\\\/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME) - RTR3ZL6B&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1405987200&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Candles are seen at the memorial of Garner in Staten Island&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Candles are seen at the memorial of Garner in Staten Island\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Candles are seen at the memorial of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, July 21, 2014. Garner, who was suspected of selling untaxed cigarettes, died after New York police put him in a chokehold. The cause of Garner&amp;#8217;s death is still being determined by the city&amp;#8217;s medical examiner. REUTERS\/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES &amp;#8211; Tags: CRIME) &amp;#8211; RTR3ZL6B&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/eric_garner_memorial.jpg?fit=500%2C332&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/eric_garner_memorial.jpg?fit=620%2C412&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11446\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/eric_garner_memorial.jpg?resize=620%2C412&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Candles are seen at the memorial of Garner in Staten Island\" width=\"620\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/eric_garner_memorial.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/eric_garner_memorial.jpg?resize=125%2C83&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/eric_garner_memorial.jpg?resize=500%2C332&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are incredible overtones in the language used by Brooklyn borough prez Eric Adams &#8211; &#8220;We will not surrender our public safety to anyone&#8221; and the &#8220;quality of life&#8221; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">chokehold-killing<\/span> of Eric Garner in Staten Island.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s incredible when pols don&#8217;t realize the sensitivity of their own language and what else is going on in the borough\/s around them. Eric Adams is espousing the obvious rhetoric without thought, empathy, or compassion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>If flying a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/whiteflag?src=hash\">#whiteflag<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BrooklynBridge?src=hash\">#BrooklynBridge<\/a> is someone\u2019s idea of a joke, I\u2019m not laughing. We won&#8217;t surrender our public safety to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Adams (@BPEricAdams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BPEricAdams\/statuses\/491603953994706944\">July 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I would truly love to hear an argument how the &#8216;security of others&#8217; was somehow put at risk with two white flags, keeping in mind Eric Garner&#8217;s life was terminated due to a &#8216;security of others&#8217; &#8220;quality of life&#8221; protocol:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Political and social expression, whatever its message may be, has a place in our society, but not at the expense of others\u2019 security.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Adams (@BPEricAdams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BPEricAdams\/statuses\/491604129996099584\">July 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Idiot.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are incredible overtones in the language used by Brooklyn borough prez Eric Adams &#8211; &#8220;We will not surrender our public safety to anyone&#8221; and the &#8220;quality of life&#8221; chokehold-killing of Eric Garner in Staten Island. It&#8217;s incredible when pols don&#8217;t realize the sensitivity of their own language and what else is going on in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,15],"tags":[110],"series":[],"class_list":["post-11444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-local","tag-brooklyn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/072214_white_flags_on_brooklyn_bridgepm-9.jpg?fit=840%2C560&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-2YA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11444"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11452,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions\/11452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11444"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}