EDIT: The original YouTube video was removed by the uploader. Don’t know why. But here’s a news article on the subject:
New Jersey police department sends 18-year-old BLM organizer a $2,500 overtime bill for security cost at her 40-person protest
ORIGINAL POST (based on the now-deleted video):
The city has a law on the books allowing it to bill for police services for private events… which this would seem to have been.
Money quote:
“I was shocked when I read that I had to pay to exercise my first amendment rights.”
Huh.
She also has a *second* amendment right. One wonders if she’d be shocked that the government won’t just *give* her a gun, that she has to pay for bullets and targets and training and range time.
Also: those arrested and convicted of rioting and looting should, as part of their sentences, be fined for the costs of restocking looted stores, rebuilding burned-out buildings. A lifetime bill of a few million dollars might be a bit of a disincentive to being a violent destructive jackass. Similarly, crowd funding efforts to support convicted rioters/looters should be leined-upon.
NEWS UPDATE:
Englewood Cliffs mayor rescinds $2,500 bill sent to teen organizer of Black Lives Matter rally
So, now you can monopolize the police at no cost to you.