Sixth Street Board Chair Amikole Maraesa and her authoritarian board have repeatedly called the police on Howard Brandstein and Friends of Sixth Street Community Center beginning with their unjust firing of Brandstein and the hostile takeover of the Center on April 8th.
Once again on September 19th, Maraesa called the police on Friends of Sixth Street who were holding a picket outside Flower Power, where her Shea Butter products are sold, calling her and her board out on their firings of longtime staff, shutdown of Center programs and sabotage of community land trust low-income housing.
Incredibly, Maraesa offered the police a justification for shutting down the Friends’ picket by citing the recent take down of Tonight Show host Jimmy Kimmel as a precedent! His show was suspended at the behest of the Trump administration. Video above of Maraesa’s sidewalk interchange with the NYPD.
The police, for once upholding the Constitution, firmly rejected Maraesa’s twisted logic and her effort to remove the picketes from the sidewalk.
Friends of Sixth Street is planning another picket for this Saturday, September 27th (details to follow).