Manhattan cops bust 7 men for "crime" of playing chess in an unapproved area

by The blogprof


Manhattan cops bust 7 men for "crime" of playing chess in an unapproved area: "Chess. CHESS! In an unapproved area. This took place in a park in the liberal Utopia of New York: Cops bust seven men playing chess in upper Manhattan park

A squad of cops in bulletproof vests swooped into an upper Manhattan park and charged seven men with the 'crime' of playing chess in an area off-limits to adults unaccompanied by kids -- even though no youngsters were there.

'Is chess really something that should be considered a threat to the neighborhood?' Inwood resident and mom Joanne Johnson wrote Mayor Bloomberg, the City Council and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly after the raid.

'This incident is an embarrassment to the officers from the 34th Precinct who felt that it was necessary to use their badge and authority to issue such a random summons.'

All 7 seven illegal chess players got desk-appearance tickets. In America! The Police said the rule protects kids from pedophiles or others who might want to harm them. And from chess players:

'They treated us like drug dealers. All we were doing was playing chess.'

Where does such moonbattery end? Let me tell you. Or actually, let me remind you from this prior post: Totalitarian Hell: In the U.K, parents banned from watching their children in playgrounds in case they're pedophiles

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