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NAACP Joins With Knife Rights in Support of New York Knife Law Reform
Good news for you knife aficionados. Someone is advocating for your right to keep and bear knives. Kniferights.org has been lobbying to reform knife laws around the country. Now it is has allied with the NAACP to push for the reform of NYC’s oppressive knife law enforcement. Politics makes for strange bedfellows indeed.
The NYPD has been making bogus arrests of people under the state law banning switchblades and gravity knives if they are in possession of a knife that the arresting police officer can open with a “flick of the wrist”. Having a knife visibly clipped to the top of ones’ trouser pocket (illegal in New York) provides the police with the justification for a "stop and frisk" investigation and a determination whether the knife observed being carried is legal or not. Under the wrist flick test just about any lock-blade knife or tactical style folding knife could be judged to be an illegal "gravity knife.”
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
NAACP Joins With Knife Rights in Support of New York Knife Law Reform
The two knives in the lower left corner are actual gravity knives. The others have resulted in prosecutions for possession of a "gravity knife" in New York City. (update) The two knives (brass handled and black handled) just to the right of the German gravity knives in the lower left corner, are American made gravity knives from the 19th century. Thanks to Doug for the information.
Knife Rights has been aggressively working to reform the New York State law on pocket knives. The law was passed in the 1950's as part of the trendy and hyped "switchblade" ban based on false information and emotional arguments.
Some organizations associated with "progressive" groups that are hostile to the Second Amendment have joined in support of this reform. Their concern with the law seems to be because black and Hispanics are the disproportionate targets, rather than from Constitutional concerns.
Knife Rights filed a federal lawsuit in 2013. The suit is working its way through the courts. The lawsuit claims the law is vague, because people in New York City cannot tell whether a knife is a "gravity knife" or not until a policeman tells them. The Village Voice believes that about 60,000 people have been arrested under the weird interpretation of the law by New York City prosecutors.
It may be months before a court decision is reached, years if the decision is appealed.
Knife Rights also pushed a legislative reform that would prevent most abuses of the law. This year it passed both houses of the legislature with overwhelming margins: 99 to 12 in the Assembly, unanimously in the Senate.
It is unknown if Governor Cuomo will sign or veto the bill. Mayor De Blasio has come out against it.
Two "progressive" allies have added their voices to urge Governor Cuomo to sign the bill.
The first was The Legal Aid Society, which is the largest public defender organization in New York City. Given the abuse of the law by Manhattan CA Cyrus Vance, that is expected.
Now the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund has signed on. From villagevoice.com:
The NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund — the organization founded by Thurgood Marshall and responsible for bringing Brown v. Board of Education, Loving v. Virginia and many other seminal civil rights cases — has thrown its support behind efforts in the New York legislature to reform the state’s broken gravity knife statute.
In a letter sent this week, the organization urged Governor Andrew Cuomo to sign a reform bill, passed by the legislature in June, designed to stop prosecutions that have attracted widespread criticism. "This law is problematic on its face and even more problematic in its application," the organization wrote. "It punishes New Yorkers for an innocent act, and it is overwhelmingly applied against African Americans and Latinos." (The full text of the letter is below.)
Mayor de Blasio is in direct opposition to the Legal Aid Society and the NAACP. It is ironic that de Blasio has been hostile to "stop and frisk" but wants to maintain the law that most "stop and frisk" arrests were made under.
These antiquated knife laws, passed in moments of hyperbole with little relationship to fact or logic, are being reformed and repealed across the nation. Efforts by Knife Rights have been successful in New Hampshire, Alaska, Tenneseee, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Maine, Indiana, Texas, Nevada, and Wisconsin have all been successful. Perhaps the Legal Aid Society and the NAACP will supply enough "pull" to get Governor Cuomo to sign the bill.
With the help of "progressive" organizations, the reform effort could be accelerated and multiplied.
At some point, knives will be judicially recognized as "Arms" protected under the Second Amendment.
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Finally! After 5 Years Knife Rights' Day in Court to End Bogus NYC Gravity Knife Arrests
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“…Under current interpretation of New York's gravity knife statute by the courts, all that is required for a person to be found guilty is that a cop or prosecutor can demonstrate to the judge that the knife opens with a "wrist flick," even if the knife's owner cannot do so and even if it takes multiple attempts to succeed in the test. A recent ruling by New York's highest court confirmed that even if the knife's owner had no idea it was even possible to wrist flick the knife open and had never tried to do so, it does not matter.”
“There is no test that can be performed, or any other means, for any person in New York to be assured that any common folding knife with bias toward closure and a locking blade is not an illegal gravity knife as long as some other person, and in particular some New York cop with more experience, more skill or more strength, can successfully "wrist flick" the knife open…”
“…Finally, we'd like to again warn those living in or visiting New York City that it has an under 4-inch blade length limit and also requires that any knife be carried COMPLETELY CONCEALED and not visible. The most common cause for a stop and subsequent confiscation or gravity knife arrest is a knife clipped to the pocket, which is illegal in NYC. Using the City's "wrist flick" test, any lock-blade knife could potentially be claimed to be an illegal gravity knife.”
Chinese Vigilantes in Sacramento
Community vigilantes step up patrols in face of crime wave targeting Sacramento Asians
By Richard Chang rchang@sacbee.com
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Organizers of the citizen patrols say they are fed up with the police response.
When night falls, Chinese restaurant chef A-Shun heads out in his SUV with a box of Red Bull in tow.
A-Shun patrols various south Sacramento neighborhoods from 9 p.m. until the early hours of the morning, waiting to respond to potential crimes targeting Asians. He is part of a self-organized volunteer patrol group of at least a dozen Chinese immigrants. Their ranks include waitresses and construction workers, store owners and massage therapists.
In an interview with The Sacramento Bee last month inside a Vietnamese-Chinese restaurant on Florin Road, a dozen of the patrol members decried what they called a lackluster response to a spate of robberies by police and argued they have no choice but to take security into their own hands. Speaking in Mandarin, A-Shun and others wondered aloud whether Asians were being targeted for their perceived financial success. The volunteers only shared their first names, saying they feared retaliation from police and criminals.
“We can’t think only about ourselves. We need to think about everyone,” said A-Shun, a father of two children, explaining why he started patrolling.
They have formed a chat group on Chinese social media app WeChat that now includes 1,000 Chinese residents of Sacramento. Residents use the platform to share safety tips and report crimes in progress. Any volunteer who sees the call can choose to respond, said Wei Xin Yang, a restaurant worker who is the lead organizer of this grass-roots effort.
Members of the group declined to let a Sacramento Bee reporter accompany them on a patrol, citing safety concerns, but described some of the calls they’ve recently responded to.
Just after 1 a.m. on a recent morning, residents of a home in the 7400 block of Villajoy Way alerted the patrol to an attempted home invasion in progress – someone ramming a jeep into the garage in what appeared to be an attempt to break down the door. Within minutes, about seven volunteers arrived, horns blaring and headlights shining, but the suspects had already left.
“We want to show that we are a force,” Yang said, raising his fist. “We want to reduce the loss of our compatriots and to prevent violence.”
When Sacramento police officers arrived at the Villajoy residence, they asked the residents to file a report online to document the damage for insurance purposes, since there was no suspect description or license plate obtained, according to Yang and police.
Raising his voice, Yang denounced that attitude as cavalier.
“This is racism,” he said. “If they don’t do anything, what’s the point of filing a report?”
Others in the group agreed, saying they felt that police didn’t want to help Chinese residents because “we’re not as important.”
Officer Traci Trapani, a Sacramento Police Department spokeswoman, defended the handling of the situation, saying nothing could be done in the case given the lack of a description for either a suspect or the vehicle.
Given the lack of details, it would have been a waste of time for an officer to write a report. “Officers need to respond to other higher priority calls,” Trapani said.
In another recent incident, members of the patrols said they chased a suspect vehicle for several blocks hoping to get the license plate to report to police. The chase ended when the home invasion suspects sped through stoplights, according to Yang.
He said the volunteers didn’t want to break the law, so they stopped the pursuit.
Each day, the citizen volunteers receive about four calls for service, which so far have included suspicious people, robberies and assaults. Sometimes the requests can double, and they occur at all hours of the day. Yang calls the app a “lifeline” for Chinese immigrants who don’t speak English or understand the laws of the United States.
Volunteers said they haven’t yet witnessed any violence.
Some of the volunteers said they have concealed weapons permits and carry guns on their patrols. Others at the interview said they are applying for a permit with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, citing a south Sacramento crime wave that has kept many residents away from restaurants and supermarkets after dark.
Scott, who said he holds a concealed weapons permit, patrols around his gardening supply store and the neighborhood of Power Inn and Elder Creek roads, where his parents live. A native of the Chinese southern province of Guangxi, Scott said he will use his gun “only when necessary,” such as during a physical confrontation.
“In America, everyone should have the ability to protect oneself,” said Scott, who has a 10-month-old daughter.
So far, none of the patrol members have used their weapon. The group said that they would call police first, rather than get entangled in a confrontation.
The crimes targeting Asians have followed a pattern: The victims are robbed and attacked just as they exit their vehicle in a parking lot or at home, according to police and witness accounts. Authorities have described the suspects as African American men, ages 18 to 25.
Robberies have increased sharply in the area, according to a Bee review of the city’s crime reports database. Through Sept. 16, police have taken 74 reports of robberies this year in the area, up from 40 robberies during the same period of 2015 and 32 robberies during the same period in 2014. Reports of home invasions in the area rose from six by this point in 2015 to 14 so far this year, city police data show. Police say they have arrested at least 10 people this year who targeted Asian Americans.
Police reached out to residents earlier this year, posting a notice on the social media site Nextdoor that robberies in the area were on the rise and asking residents to be vigilant.
Yang insists on calling his group a “neighborhood watch program” and emphasized that members’ intentions are to stop crime against the Asian community, rather than spark a racial conflict. “We don’t want these patrols. We’d rather sit at home and watch TV, but only if the police did their jobs,” he said.
Former Sacramento County Sheriff John McGinness called the citizen patrols dangerous.
“I understand the motivation, but responding to an emotionally charged, violent situation without the benefit of training and discipline could be an absolute recipe for disaster,” McGinness said.
But, he added, “(the patrols) could be part of what breaks the cycle. With community involvement, we are stronger together.”
While two months away from taking office, Sacramento Mayor-elect Darrell Steinberg has discussed the issue at length with community leaders. He attended a forum that drew 600 Asian residents last month.
“Armed patrols are not the answer,” he said. “The answer is for the community to work together with law enforcement and public officials to create different ways for people to safely report crimes.”
If WeChat is the preferred method of communication for the Chinese community, Steinberg doesn’t rule out the Police Department using it.
“We’ve got to come to them,” Steinberg said.
The dumb-dumb Jew mayor holds a forum and warns people not to defend themselves, the mick Sherriff warns people not to defend themselves whilst eating a donut, and the Chinese take matters into their own hands. What an ethnic cauldron California has become! We don't need more construction workers as we have 15 million from Mexico. We don't need more restaurants or workers because we have 15 million workers from Mexico. We don't need more massage therapists (usually prostitutes). The government must be bringing them here to shore up its debt service and stave-off state bankruptcy, which is inevitable. This report is out of the state capital. The state can't control its own capital.
"...When Sacramento police officers arrived at the Villajoy residence, they asked the residents to file a report online to document the damage for insurance purposes, since there was no suspect description or license plate obtained, according to Yang and police.
Raising his voice, Yang denounced that attitude as cavalier.
“This is racism,” he said. “If they don’t do anything, what’s the point of filing a report?”
Others in the group agreed, saying they felt that police didn’t want to help Chinese residents because “we’re not as important.”..."
Now everything is racism. Whites not taking care of Chinese when Blacks attack them...racism. White people's fault. Maybe this is a good sign the cry of "racism" has become so frivolous that maybe it's at the peak.