What basis do the police have for removing PPE that people are handing out at a polling site? What are they shutting down next? Lemonade stands?
Alexa Avilés @CMAlexaAviles
24 Oct 2020
On the first day of early voting in Red Hook, @NYPD76Pct officers confronted community activists handing out PPE in front of an early polling site & then seized it. This is unacceptable, the NYPD must issue clear guidelines & not escalate situations at the polls.

Oct 24, 2020 · 7:03 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
You can’t hand stuff out at the polls, even if it’s as inoccucuous as a mask. It’s meant to discourage voter intimidation or influence.
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@NewYorkStateAG @NYGovCuomo @NYCMayor @mayawiley
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What on earth for? Why not help distribute the PPE to voters?! This makes absolutely no sense on multiple levels!
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Make civil forfeiture a federal crime. Defund the police. OrganiZe and Mobilize my friends 😤
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That’s just wrong. People have the right to protect themselves.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
I wondered the same thing as well. I don’t know how they have any right to do this.
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They’re stealing it! Under what statute are they seizing that property? This is the slow-rolling police riot that needs more attention - their actions to make life worse for the people footing the bill for the wages, benefits & pensions that the rest of us don’t have.
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That’s stealing , plan and simple.
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WTH is PPE???
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Activists are not supposed to be soliciting at polling stations.
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