Thank goodness for Henry!
An anti-cop protester virtually tousled Eddie’s profession with a lie, and Frank did not assume he might do something about it as a result of he and Eddie each wished him to behave with integrity.
If Henry hadn’t come to the rescue on Blue Bloods Season 13 Episode 19, that protester might need gotten away with forcing Eddie off the streets when she hadn’t performed something incorrect. However did this case must go down like this within the first place?
The incident occurred partially as a result of the cops have been too terrified of being seen as violent to answer anti-cop protesters.
Folks have a proper to peacefully protest in opposition to the cops or anybody else. However throwing bottles and shoving individuals aren’t peaceable types of protest. If Eddie hadn’t advised that different cop to disregard somebody throwing a bottle at him and tried to stroll away herself, the state of affairs might need gone in another way.
The protester who shoved Eddie had an agenda of her personal. She intentionally pushed a cop, dared Eddie to shoot her, and rolled round dramatically on the bottom to make it seem that Eddie was hurting her.
When are we going to take a stand and say sufficient is sufficient? Each cop isn’t a brief fuse ready to be lit.
Sid
The place was that different cop? Civilians filmed that incident from their standpoint, however he stood again and did nothing. On the very least, he ought to have come ahead as a witness to what occurred between Eddie and that lady.
As Henry mentioned, the lady’s conduct was an Oscar-worthy efficiency; it additionally ought to have alerted the cops on the scene that this arrestee would trigger hassle.
The lady faked many accidents and made one grievance after one other, hoping that one thing would stick. Might the cops have headed this off on the cross by having her checked out for her supposed accidents post-arrest?
Possibly it would not have made a distinction, however I might have liked to see the look on her face in the event that they known as EMTs to the scene to test her out. That ought to have put an finish to her rip-off earlier than it started.
The extra important problem was the one Sid identified. Someplace alongside the road, cops acquired so afraid of reinforcing any a part of the anti-cop protesters’ beliefs about them that they started letting them get away with violent conduct.
That coverage does not make any sense. Being a cop shouldn’t be a political job the place different individuals’s opinions are extra vital than imposing legal guidelines. In any other case, anti-cop protesters get to dictate how cops behave. That approach lies anarchy.
I might additionally appreciated to have recognized what the protest was about. The cops have been there to verify issues did not get out of hand — not that they have been efficient — however the protesters appeared to be random individuals who have been offended on the cops for some unspecified motive.
Advocates for police reform should not need individuals like that violent protester concerned with their motion. It provides them a foul identify and makes individuals doubt their trigger.
When incidents like this occur, the cops blame protesters for instigating violence, whereas the protesters accuse the cops of planting violent individuals amongst them to disrupt the protest. This successfully stops all dialogue and interferes with both facet’s skill to listen to the opposite.
However that wasn’t what this episode was about, for probably the most half. After the incident, Eddie and Frank started doing this unusual dance the place Eddie wished him to return down arduous on her to show that he wasn’t going tender, and he wished to comply with the principles to the letter and was left with no option to arise for her.
It felt like their integrity was getting used in opposition to them. Luckily, Henry had no qualms about utilizing subterfuge to get proof that the protester was making up tales about being critically injured.
In the meantime, a hearth at an NYPD storage locker wreaked havoc on everybody’s skill to maintain criminals behind bars the place they belonged. Erin and Anthony have been drowning in circumstances that wanted a unique approach, whereas Danny needed to discover a completely different option to show a drug cartel chief was responsible of homicide.
Danny: I ought to have seen it coming.
Baez: Lopez getting killed isn’t on you.
Danny: I ought to have had the assertion prepared. Put him in federal safety or one thing.
Baez: They nonetheless might need acquired to him.
Danny: What will get to me is Rodriguez strolling round free. He acts like he is above the legislation. I am beginning to assume he’s.
On condition that one of many beneficiaries of the case was a cartel boss who did not assume twice earlier than ordering hits on anybody who might incriminate him, it was weird that the fireplace had nothing to do with him. As a substitute, it was a disgruntled worker with an idiotic concept about beginning a hearth after which placing it out in order that he might get a promotion.
I discover it arduous to imagine that Rodriguez, an professional at protecting his tracks, merely had good luck, and there was no connection between him and the arson case.
With Jamie heading that case, I anticipated Danny to presume such a connection and stress his little brother into proving it. Surprisingly, the 2 investigations stayed utterly separate this time.
That is okay; we did not want one other struggle between Danny and Jamie throughout this high-stakes case.
Danny used himself as bait to catch the hitmen, which led him on to Rodriguez. However he’d be silly to assume this was over.
Rodriguez’s remark that he selected the incorrect individuals to take out Danny felt like a warning. He could attempt once more to get him, particularly now that Danny acquired him re-arrested simply as he was about to stroll free.
Often, this stuff do not play out instantly, however I might count on Rodriguez to make hassle for Danny and his household someday throughout Blue Bloods Season 14.
Anthony’s willpower to get the one that killed his buddy was attention-grabbing. There was an analogous case on East New York Season 1 Episode 12, once more underscoring how nice it could be for these two collection to have a crossover episode.
I am unsure how Anthony went from Erin’s pep discuss to establishing a sting, however I knew he would come out of nowhere to arrest the perp as quickly because the theft started.
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