Annoyance – “New York County Passes Bill That Could Jail People if They ‘Annoy’ a Cop”

To the Monroe County Legislature, or more particularly the Republicans in that legislature, your blatant racism and political pay back to people in the city is totally obvious. They/we had defeated your incumbent for County executive. They/we had defeated the mostly white police union’s enemy, by voting in the Police Accountability Board. So like Southern racists after Brown, you struck back by passing a racist law. A racist law that will significantly disproportionately impact voters in the City of Rochester. Your proposed law will make it illegal to ANNOY a police officer or other first responder.

So who is more likely to annoy a white male police officer – A white suburbanite or a person of color from the city? But who else? A disabled person taking too much time in answering your question. A black/brown/white woman with an challenging attitude. The male spouse of the man you have pulled over, who tries to video you giving his spouse attitude. The transgender man giving you a look and a little verbal push back who threatens your masculinity. The woman with the hijab trying to ask you questions in an accent that you know should not be here. The upset mother of an assault victim demanding you do something, you know you can not do. The black or Hispanic husband or a white woman who asks too many questions about how the police officer is talking to or looking at his with. The teenager videoing you as you aggressively talk to his/her friends at the bus station, as the officer tells them to move on. In other words, who is most likely to annoy a suburban police officer, the answer is someone not like them. We know how implicit bias works. We know which type of woman gets labeled aggressive when she asks too many questions. We know those people are more likely to live in the city. So we know that this new law is simply racist payback, and my guess is so do you. Disproportionate representation in the prison system happens because of racist laws. You have passed a racist law.

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