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TexasTowelie

(112,120 posts)
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 05:39 AM Mar 2021

Upstate NY ice cream shop owner made racist taunts to protesters, wrongly called cops, says AG

An upstate ice cream shop owner was a weaponized harasser of minorities who wrongly took his race-based hatred to police, says a lawsuit filed by New York attorney general Letitia James.

The suit, filed Wednesday in Schenectady Supreme Court, is the first brought by the AG’s office under a law passed by the Legislature last year that allows the state to sue people motivated by racial or other bias who call police “without reason to suspect a violation of the penal law.”

The law was passed after a Manhattan woman, Amy Cooper, called police on a Black man who complained her dog was off its leash in Central Park.

David Elmendorf, owner of Bumpy’s Polar Freeze in Schenectady, brandished a .22 caliber air rifle against people protesting his alleged racism, says the lawsuit.

Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-schenectady-ice-cream-owner-karens-law-20210311-2qlduxr6enaililaoln42aqozi-story.html

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Upstate NY ice cream shop owner made racist taunts to protesters, wrongly called cops, says AG (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2021 OP
Elmendorf? RicROC Mar 2021 #1
Operation Paperclip IbogaProject Mar 2021 #2

RicROC

(1,204 posts)
1. Elmendorf?
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 11:07 AM
Mar 2021

is it a coincidence that many of these racists seem to have germanic last nights?

(asking as one who has many German Vorfahren/ascestors)

IbogaProject

(2,804 posts)
2. Operation Paperclip
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 01:13 PM
Mar 2021
Operation Paperclip

seven-decades-nazi-collaboration

I had a teacher who came to the US as a Senate Page at age 16, his Dad had been Admiral of the Flag Ship of the German Navy. Take a guess which party he served under. The Regressives flooded the USA with several hundred thousands Germans to rebuild their ranks, as actual Americans saw how much better The Democratic party was after the FDR years. the regressives also started to cultivate a media and recruitment presence to build up a new conservative movement leading to our current troubles.

An example of these troublemakers is "Joe the Plumber" his family were at least two of the Keating 5 and both his mom and Dad were from Americanized Nazis. Now not all German Americans, even ones who came since WWII were tools of the right, but the Regressive Party did strive to bring numerous fascists to bolster their ranks.

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