On Tuesday, November 1st, deputy sheriffs closed Staten Island’s Mac Public House pub and arrested covidiot – general manager Daniel Presti for repeated breach of coronavirus restrictions by pub owner Keith McAlarney and he. Having lost their bar license for repeated defiance of official efforts to stem the rising infection rates on Staten Island, the dynamic duo insisted on their “right to a livelihood.” By Friday, November 4th, Presti told local NY1 news that, “We are not getting the support that we need, the funding, anything from our local, state governments, all governments, for what we need, and we need our livelihoods back, and if they’re not going to give it to us, we’re going to take it back at this point because we have no confidence in them to do what needs to be done.” Strike 1 for citizen defiance of the “illegitimate authority.” Where Kyle Rittenhouse deemed the authorities legitimate in Wisconsin, Presti and McAlarney deemed them illegitimate on Staten Island – a manifestation of the same predisposition.
On Monday, Mr. Presti was at it again. This time, he used his car to run over a sheriff, who had come to arrest him for the second time in under a week. The sheriff received treatment at a local hospital for multiple fractures and Presti was eventually arrested on a wider array of charges. But as Presti’s “mimetic stance” is part of a larger political activation, he was booked and promptly released to go home – in George Floyd’s and Jacob Blake’s America.
Being from Brooklyn, we’ve never really looked much to Staten Island for sense. But look at the people in the streets, demonstrating the arrest of a man who attacked a cop with his car – a man who is providing a venue for infection and mass transmission in an area that is already seeing an explosion in this new round of coronavirus in New York
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