Daily News and NYPD lose their sh** creating a special protected status for Linda Sarsour --- the former by featuring her in a puff-piece -- and -- the latter by announcing they were going to “investigate” somebody's internet "threat" to “spit” in Sarsour's face

The deBlasio NYPD is now officially protecting the completely wrong kind of people  ---  by going after a righteously irate citizen, who might have been marginally guilty of slightly inflammatory speech, instead of the object of his ire, a true “... Enemy of the People...” with multiple demonstrable foreign loyalties

The NY Daily News continues it’s generations-long decent from its patriotic acme during the days of its post-war, anti-Communist populism and social conservatism  ---  this time by elevating the cred of a local Islamic radical at the expense of a run of the mill American doing his run of the mill American thing,  and >>> taking some potshots at Bay Ridge in the process

The Daily News article, which is so wrong in so many ways, opened its report, as follows:   “Cops are investigating a social-media threat against a popular Muslim advocate and co-organizer of last month’s Women’s March on Washington, by a Brooklyn man who wants to “spit in her face,” officials said Tuesday….   ‘This b---h is in Brooklyn,’ the poster, identified on Facebook as Glenn Maccioli, said about Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American activist who is also the executive director of the Arab American Association of New York….   ‘Anyone know where (in Brooklyn)? I would like to spit in her face,’ Maccioli posted….   He made the threat in a comment on an article about Sarsour calling President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu two ‘bigoted peas in a hateful pod.’…”   (See  “EXCLUSIVE: NYPD investigates Facebook threat to Brooklyn Muslim advocate Linda Sarsour” by  Rocco Parascandola &Thomas Tracy,  2/22/17,   NY Daily News/ NYC Crime   [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-nypd-investigates-threats-brooklyn-muslim-advocate-article-1.2978395]).

If there was any doubt about how the DN writers and editors were weighing-in on this, later in the article,   the folks at the News supposedly filled-in some additional “facts” with this:   “….   Maccioli responded to the Netanyahu article [referred to above] after it was posted on the “Bay Ridge Talk” Facebook page on Friday….   After several Facebook posters gave him spots in Bay Ridge for Sarsour’s home and office, Maccioli promised to make good on his threat….   He even invited everyone to watch, stating, ‘If I get the address I will tell you all where and when. That’s my word.’…   Many visitors to the Facebook page from the conservative Brooklyn community shared [Maccioli’s] views on Sarsour — but none threatened her.   ‘She should be deported back to hell,’ wrote Merill Trilli….” 

THE DAILY NEWS SHOWS HOW IT HAD ITS FINGER ON THE SCALE IN FAVOR OF LINDA SARSOUR AND HER SPIEL

The Daily News coverage closed with this tidbit:   “….   In 2014, a man allegedly threatened and threw a trash can at her while she was leaving her workplace.”

Those of you who have followed this blog since the time in 2014 referred to by the News in its last item about Sarsour know what a phony complaint that was.   I believe it was that false alarm by Ms. Sarsour that brought her to my attention (maybe not, it’s tough to remember things at my age  ---  I never liked her, so it’s tough to recall when I started disliking her…..).

So now it looks like Linda Sarsour is developing a real MO of making false reports about people that don't seem to like her.  She complains to the cops about threatening words and behavior when really nothing close to illegal has happened.  And, because of Sarsour's deBlasio connections, the cops obviously are on board to do her bidding.