BE CAREFUL HOW YOU ACT ... AND WHAT YOU ASK FOR

 So I'm watching "Outnumbered" from today and they brought up a story of some youths (older teens, like 16-19 yr olds) who jumped a turn-style at the subway ... seems minor enough, at this point ... but it is illegal in NYC and some cops tried to stop them, I assume to make them pay ... that's one of the things this particular branch of law enforcement is SUPPOSED to do ...
Well the teens decided to RESIST the cops, who grabbed one of them and were trying to detain him ... when the other youngun - at least from what I can tell on the video - came back to help ASSAULT the officers.
He wrestled the officer to the ground and put a CHOKE HOLD on the officer - luckily the officer was able to get up and they eventually got the kid into CUSTODY.

Which lasted all of 2 hours at most - because the kid was RELEASED because of the new "bail laws" in NYC ... 

Here's the rub ... the police officers in the city are not happy... at ... all

"If New Yorkers want to know why the chaos in the transit system is not improving more quickly -- this is why.  The criminals underground know they can get in a brawl, choke a cop and be back out in hours.  Cops are putting ourselves on the line to make the subways safer, but we are feeling abandoned by a justice system that won't back us up"

Patrick Lynch

President

Police Benevolent Association of the city of New York\

Now New York better be careful -- a city in North Carolina just found out how serious the police can be.

On July 20 of this year the ENTIRE police force QUIT en masse .... all at once ... without prior notice ... because they felt the new District Attorney made a "hostile workplace"

They felt ABANDONED by what is the other side of the law - the prosecutors - those who are supposed to support the officers when they arrest someone.

I don't know all the details ... there hasn't been a lot of news on it that I've found.  Just that little bit of a blurb on Good Morning America ... not even FoxNews has mentioned it ... but then, I'm not done watching the entire piece on Outnumbered yet - they might bring it up yet.

If they do ... you can bet I'll be back with a follow-up post.