Teen Who Organized Black Lives Matter Rally Gets Billed $2500 For Police Overtime

[TheBlackAdder]

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ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. (AP) — A teen who organized a Black Lives Matter rally in her northern New Jersey town said she has been sent a $2500 bill from officials for police overtime.

NJ Advance Media reported Friday Emily Gil, 18, of Englewood Cliffs received a letter earlier this month from Mayor Mario M. Kranjac looking for payment of $2,499.26 “for the police overtime caused by your protest.”

A civil liberties advocate called the move “shocking.”

Gil, a recent high school graduate, had organized a protest on July 25 in the town, just across the river from the uppermost parts of Manhattan. She said she called for action like increasing affordable housing in the town, and chastised Engelwood Cliffs for not implementing it over the years.

The town’s letter said she had not met with officials before her protest, requiring them to hastily come up with security plans.

Gil said she didn’t meet with them in person over coronavirus concerns, but made an offer to meet via Zoom, which wasn’t accepted, and then officials stopped responding to her.

She said she had reached out to Kranjac after getting the bill, but has gotten no response.

Kranjac told NJ Advance Media that protesters’ rights of free speech and assembly were respected, and that Gil was wrong to link affordable housing to her protest.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teen-organized-blm-rally-billed-police-overtime_n_5f49870bc5b6cf66b2b7faa1

Typical NJ Republican and their Chris Christie 'Bridgegate Radio Silence' bullshit!

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[Volaris]

1. '...she had not met with officials BEFOREHAND...'

Indicating that these officials believe one needs permission to exercise ones Constitutionally Protected human Right to the First Amendment.

Because that's not fascist, no not at all. Besides. TAX DOLLARS are supposed to pay that overtime bill. It's why the police are a PUBLIC GOOD, instead of a private security firm.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. I thought that odd too, but many towns require permits for protests, which review security concerns.

[Towlie]

5. Here, I made up a permit to show them:

I think it might be more reasonable to require a notification, but not a permit, as if you needed anyone's permission.

[MissLilyBart]

3. The bill has been rescinded

Not that it makes what the town did any less appalling.

https://www.nj.com/bergen/2020/08/mayor-rescinds-2500-bill-sent-to-nj-teen-who-held-black-lives-matter-protest.html

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Thanks for the follow-up!

[ck4829]

6. Kick

[Solly Mack]

7. ...

Kranjac told NJ Advance Media that protesters’ rights of free speech and assembly were respected, and that Gil was wrong to link affordable housing to her protest

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Affordable housing linked to BLM - and correctly so - really pissed off Kranjac.

BLM isn't just about ending police brutality and murder of black people. Racism inflicts a broad spectrum of wrongs and atrocities against black people.