This is entirely NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio's fault. If anyone should be charged with a felony over this, it's him. He has directly emboldened these attackers and should one of the officers respond with force, he'd have them fired. At the same time he has no remorse whatsoever about the skyrocketing suicide rate in his NYPD. He is a repugnant excuse for a mayor.
That being said, it is just water. A crime? Absolutely. Depending on the exact circumstances of each individual case, it could be serious enough to warrant a felony charge if it directly interferes with the performance of their duties, or if it somehow leads to the injury of an officer. If not, then a felony charge is excessive. One of the biggest impediments to law enforcement today after political undermining of their authority, is the overly complex and onerous criminal statutes.
Some of the things you can be arrested for are just plain stupid. Yesterday I heard about a woman in Ohio who was jailed criminally for 10 days for feeding the neighborhood cats. Seriously? You can't deal with that under civil statute? You're going to make feeding a potentially starving animal a crime? In another case, a woman who voted in the 2016 election in Texas was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison, because she was on supervised release after a felony conviction for tax fraud. C'mon, I take election security as seriously as anyone and don't like illegal voting in any case, but a white collar criminal getting 5 years in Club Fed for VOTING? In another case an LEGAL immigrant got EIGHT years in Club Fed for voting. There are armed robbers and people convicted of killing someone who don't get sentences that long!
It's just a bridge too far.
That being said, it is just water. A crime? Absolutely. Depending on the exact circumstances of each individual case, it could be serious enough to warrant a felony charge if it directly interferes with the performance of their duties, or if it somehow leads to the injury of an officer. If not, then a felony charge is excessive. One of the biggest impediments to law enforcement today after political undermining of their authority, is the overly complex and onerous criminal statutes.
Some of the things you can be arrested for are just plain stupid. Yesterday I heard about a woman in Ohio who was jailed criminally for 10 days for feeding the neighborhood cats. Seriously? You can't deal with that under civil statute? You're going to make feeding a potentially starving animal a crime? In another case, a woman who voted in the 2016 election in Texas was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison, because she was on supervised release after a felony conviction for tax fraud. C'mon, I take election security as seriously as anyone and don't like illegal voting in any case, but a white collar criminal getting 5 years in Club Fed for VOTING? In another case an LEGAL immigrant got EIGHT years in Club Fed for voting. There are armed robbers and people convicted of killing someone who don't get sentences that long!
It's just a bridge too far.
