NationStates Jolt Archive

New York One News:

"...a protestor was shot today by the NYPD during a march on the capitol building..."

Federal Republic News Network:

"...scattered reports of looting in several neighborhoods of Queens have been reported. The mayor has called for all police, fire and EMS personnel not on sick leave to report to their respective commands for duty assignments..."

Sky Eye News:

"...fires burn at the moment in Jamacia,Queens. FDNY units are unable to get to the fires as rioters have caused the area to become dangerous..."

MSNBC News:

"..talks of New York's governor has been asked to deploy the national guard to rioting areas. Confirmed is a state of martial law is being imposed on NYC tonight as rioters..."

It began with an announcement by the government to discontinue bussing students from other neighborhoods to ones with better schools. Leaders of minority communities disliked the idea and called for protests. It was at one of these protests that cops and protestors clashed. It wasnt sure who started what, and nothing would be truely known until after the riots. All that was known after that day was a white cop had shot a black protestor. Citing hundreds of years of injustice several communities in Queens where the police had always had a difficult time maintaining law and order began to break down and riot.

From news helicopters above a lot of the rioting was caught on video tape. It was to the point where the looters trashed a hospital and overturned an ambulance. The response was slow but large. The municiple police force of 80,000 was called into action. The 12 tanks of the Federal Republic Police Department were also called up into service. However it would be impossible and outright dangerous to deploy the entire police force into the areas with rioting as it would leave sections of the city without any police protection.

To each of the three neighborhoods however cops went in by the hundreds. Dressed in riot gear they launched tear gas canisters and were promptly met with bricks and bottles that smashed against riot shields. The point of lethal force had not yet been reached but it was close at hand. Especially with the mayor calling for the govenor to send in National Guard units to assist in the quelling of the riot. The NYPD had to deal with crowds that outnumbered the riot cops almost 6 to 1 in one of the three neighborhoods. And only time would tell if the riots would expand further.

The wonderful nation of Vegana strongly recommends NYNJ to refrain from using lethal force as long as possible. Recent experience shows that when the object of the rioters hatred doesn't try pouring oil over troubled waters, things will escalate. Since NYNJ hasn't been able to contain the riots as much as the Iesus security did in St. Dominic (basically to one block) we only hope that innocents will not be harmed and that the police will get things under control without casualties. Our prayers are with you in your task.

Near the riots, a lowrider rounds the corner on three wheels, speakers thumping and hydraulics active. Parking a few metres further down the road, a homie jump out of the car, takes out a spraycan, and tags the entire thread with TVC symbols.

Parking a few metres further down the road, a homie jump out of the car, takes out a spraycan, and tags the entire thread with TVC symbols.

Tagged!

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While at Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral earlier that morning, the Syskeyian ambassador to NYNJ noted that his shirt tag was bothering him.

God bless,

The Republic of Syskeyia

In Jamacia, Queens the first of the New York Police Department M551 Sheridans arrived on the scene.Their respective tank commanders stood out of the hatch in the unbuttoned position for several moments. Enough for rioters on a rooftop who began to throw molotov cocktails down to the street. One of the molotovs cracked on the surface of a tank and caused the commanders to pull their hatches down but not before one of the deadly bottles found its way down the hatch and smashed inside of the tank. Scrambling to get out the tank commander and driver scrambled for their lives. The gunner and loader however were unlucky as the tank went up in flames.

Above the rioting NYPD helicopters circled the action. Side doors open they carried officers of the Emergency Services Unit, who had been tasked with making sure the roofs stayed clear of any rioters this was going to be a black mark on them in the future. For now though they had been authorized the use of lethal force. The helicopters moving down slowly toward the rooftop an ESU officer let loose several shots from the M4 assault rifle. Several protesters falling to the ground bleeding the rest were dispersed.

As night began to fall over the city the riots calmed themselves down alittle. The martial law had gotten some of the people off the street. Those who remained would find out just how far the NYPD would go before lethal force would be used on the massed crowd. "BATONS!" Came the call from the line commanders as the riot cops withdrew batons from the back of the riot shield. "ADVANCE IN RANK!" The cops moved forward in the three neighborhoods and began to clash with masses in all three communities. From the perspective of the TV camaras hovering over the scene it appeared to be just one big melee between cops and rioters.

Inside of Manhatten across from Queens the National Guard units began to form. Armored Cars leaving the central armory in Manhatten along with several APCs. The cops had always debated the use of lethal force against the crowd. With the military there was no debate. They were being called in because the crowd was to violent to deal with without an extreme repressive tactic to get the rioters to break. The point of no return was quickly in sight.

OOC::gets out popcorn, sets up armchair, and gets ready too watch the one-sided carnage:

On a overthrown a car the bumper was completely torn off.

On a overthrown a car the bumper was completely torn off.

A protestor took the bumper and bumped it into a policeman, taging him on the head... hard...

Looks like racism is still alive in your country.

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"Oppose excessive military spending, yet believe in excessive spending on junk food and plastic surgery to make all your women look like LARDASSES!"-Sino, when I criticized excessive military spending.
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Parliament has authorized the Red Army to supply arms to the guerrillas, in hopes that fascism may be eliminated from NYJ.

The riots had been quelled slightly with the announcement that a nation would be supplying guerillas in an attempt to thwart the government. The national guard units were however sent in to quell what was left. Three neighborhoods were buring and smoke could be seen from orbit rising into the sky and blowing eastward toward the ocean and Long Island. If it was anything New Yorkers didnt like it was outside interferance and when President de los Santos went on the air from an unknown location rumored to be near the rioting it sent a majority of the looters home.

Galdania in its past had sent weapons and even scattered reports of troops when the Red Brigade had been a large menance in New York and New Jersey. Many of the soldiers who fought against the RB then were from the poor neighborhoods which were now rioting. This wasnt a revolution against the government, it was an example of the frustation people had with the current justice system in general.

As a new day dawned on Queens, fired continue to rage out of control. Fire departments from neighboring cities and towns arrived and by mid-afternoon 1,300 firefighters were split up amongst three seperate neighborhoods trying to keep the fires from spreading more out of control than they were already. Hundreds of people filled the hospitals and hundreds more filled the police stations and makeshift army barracks under arrest for looting and other crimes. By late afternoon most of the rioting was over and only looters remained here and there. It was however in the Senate across the river in Manhatten that another storm was brewing.

In the senate angry calls for war were demanded as the military already moblized for deployment to Mars was put on a new shift. The nations top senatorial leaders announced jointly that a resolution of war was to be drafted against Galdania. Strategic Air Command which had been placed on peace time status for the first time in its history was now back on the familiar war footing. Bombers were readied for action as cruise missiles and guided bombs were loaded on the thousands of bombers owned by NYNJ.

From the Staten Island Naval Facility, Carriers and their respective escorts were being rushed to sea. In orbit at Chimera Station, SA-43 Hammerheads were being readied for Space-to-Ground Attack Runs on targets which had yet to be identified. All posturing was toward a massive military strike against a nation which had in the past done the same thing to NYNJ.

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OOC: Galdania, is Milka Dynastrevich still in power over there?

~Siri

If the orcs had Screens to view on, or were not fighting, you can bet they would've tagged this development a long time ago.