Retired NYPD inspector Paul Mauro joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to give his take on what happened in Nevada last weekend, when tribal rangers tried to break up a climate protest blocking miles of traffic in Black Rock Desert ahead of the annual Burning Man festival.
“Look, do I know this particular Indian nation intimately? No. But I can tell you, after 9/11, a bunch of these guys came to New York to help us out because things were obviously very hectic. We were shorthanded, you know, this unprecedented crime scene. And let me just say that these tribal cops are not that interested in putting up with the kind of nonsense you saw in the middle of the desert there at Burning Man. And I have a feeling that their overhead is not exactly going to open up some real exhaustive IAB investigation into the fact that he drove his truck through a barrier that was blocking the road and that nobody got hurt. And it was a very sort of boutique protest. Two arrestees these from New York, one from L.A.. Watch the whole video. The woman who does the most squawking gets knocked off of her beach chair. So she’s in the middle of the desert. They’re talking about the fact that they want to be doing civil disobedience, essentially they want to be arrested. And then when she gets knocked off her beach chair, she starts screaming and yelling, we’re nonviolent, oh, my God. She goes to pieces. The problem is these people have never seen real force in real life. This is not Netflix. You’re asking for the police to take action, they do. And then you can’t go to pieces.”
Paul and Jimmy also discuss the migrant crisis in New York City. To hear what else he had to say, listen to the podcast!
