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Shopkeepers in Jackson Heights, Queens, prepared on 5 June 2020 for potential riots by boarding-up small businesses operating alongst 37th Ave. in Queens. Despite irrational fears, looters have a right to assemble. Progress New York/File Photograph

December 31, 2020

EDITORIAL : Looters have a right to assemble, too

The NYPD appear to target activists by imposing “burdens” based on ideology, for example on looters. But looters have a right to assemble, since First Amendment rights are not qualified by ideology.

June 11, 2018

Richard Brown, Joseph Crowley, Queens, and institutionalised racism

EDITORIAL : By protecting Queens District Attorney Richard Brown from having any primary challenges, Queens party boss Joseph Crowley enables law enforcement Agencies in Queens to deny any criminal justice system reform to the public, enabling a culture that propagates racism.