Curtis Sliwa donned a wetsuit and his trademark Guardian Angels red beret and strode into the water at Coney Island Sunday in defiance of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s no-swimming order.
A crowd cheered Sliwa on as several city Parks Department officers tried to order the Guardian Angels founder and New York mayoral candidate out of the surf. Sliwa ignored the orders and swam around for about an hour.
Before he dove in, Sliwa stuck a cardboard cutout of de Blasio’s face on the beach and kicked sand on it. “The whole concept is, this is our beach, not de Blasio’s,” Sliwa told the New York Post. “Everybody else gets to swim in Long Island, Jersey Shore, Mediterranean. Not us? No, no, no.”
De Blasio last week threatened summonses for violators of his no-swim order aimed at keeping the coronavirus under control. City Hall spokeswoman Jane Meyer said Sliwa “should be ashamed of himself.”
“We all must work together to keep each other safe during this pandemic — not make things worse,” Meyer said.
(AP)
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One idiot deserves another.
Dear moderator, here’s an example of what I meant in a previous post. There are so many many news stories out there and this makes it to you home page. It’s disrespectful of authority and not necessary in our current climate. It’s not inspiring or relevant to our community. It just feeds the storyline of resistance to authority.
Is that what we need now? Anyone can go on a right wing non-Jewish site for this kind of story. I would hope your site offered an alternative through the “Yeshiva world” lense.
Curtis, you should have buried him upside down!
punk should’ve been arrested.