I remember when there was a great civil rights protest over the police harassing and targeting an innocent group of citizens. They would roust them and stop and frisk them and even bug their telephones and cars. You couldn't have a wedding or a funeral where they wouldn't show up and take everyones photo and write down your license plate number.
So some of our community leaders got together and started to rabble rouse and get everyone agitated over this blatant police harassment and corruption. There were marches and protests and press releases and public rallies with thousands of people protesting the discriminatory practices of law enforcement.
Then Joe Colombo got shot.
You see it was really just a front. A bunch of criminals and their families and their enablers tried to game the system so they wouldn't be prosecuted. They tried to get the cops back on their heels and make them think twice about arresting them or harassing them even when they caught them committing a crime. A lot of law abiding good citizens were caught up in the protests. They weren't crooks and low life's but they were roped into protesting so those mooks could do crime and laugh at the coppers.
Does that sound familar?
Guinea Lives Matter!
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It's fair to point out that numerous cops of Italian heritage and prosecutors like Giuliani played their part in diminishing the Mafia. In a lot of neighborhoods and job sites, everyone was deaf and dumb about certain activities, but no one with half a brain ever thought of a career n the Mafia. Our Italians were simply smarter than their Italians.
I remember hearing about the Italian American Anti Defamation League on the news in the early seventies. I never, until now, knew the story behind it.
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