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NYPD Building ‘Ring of Steel’ Around Manhattan Courthouse: Coordinating with Secret Service

An indictment is coming. We just don’t know when. And it appears that NYPD isn’t about to risk facing the type of backlash that happened on January 6th won’t happen in NYC. The Guardian reports that NYPD, Secret Service, and many other organizations, including the Port Authority and Courthouse security coordinated in the plan. To be fair, the NYPD and all the federal partners have far more resources than the poor Capitol Police, hung out to dry as Trump sent the hordes to attack the Capitol.

According to The Guardian:

New York police began installing barriers on Monday morning around the Manhattan court complex where Donald Trump is expected to be arrested this week, as the city braces for angry protests.

….It comes amid online chatter suggesting armed protesters could try to prevent law enforcement officers from arresting Trump. The result was a ring of steel being built around the Lower Manhattan courthouse, where Trump would be arraigned. 

Dennis Quirk, president of the New York State Court Officers, made an odd comment:

‘We’re going to have to close of the street around the courthouse so somebody doesn’t put a car there with a bomb,’ he said. ‘How are you going to get Trump to the building, how are you going to get him into the building and court, how are you going to get him out safely?’ ‘There’s going to be people protesters in the street,’ he said.

He said Bragg exacerbated the problem by leaking it out last week that he was meeting with the NYPD to discuss how to handle a possible indictment.

We haven’t seen anything that says Bragg leaked anything to the media. We read about five highly ranked sources in law enforcement agencies leaking that the indictment could come this week. Additionally, any sort of leak may help against a sudden uprising. It would also be impossible to ignore the security measures taken at the Manhattan courthouse. One wouldn’t expect him to criticize Bragg personally in such a dangerous time. Perhaps it’s nothing.

But the “steel ring” around the Manhattan Courthouse is very much “something.”

Here’s some video from a rather delusional MAGA:

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