Armed Robbery Takes Place Across the Street From ‘Defund The Police’ NYC Councilwoman’s Office

An armed robbery took place at a New York City café right across from Tiffany Caban, a councilwoman who advocates for the defunding of the police.

On Wednesday at 3: 15 p.m., two suspects arrived on motorcycles outside the Under Pressure Espresso Bar located in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens at 30-92 31 Street, according to a New York Police Department (NYPD) spokesperson. Two men demanded that victims turn over all their property and guns.

Chains and bracelets were among the items stolen from victims, according to witnesses via the New York Post. There was no injury to the victim.

After the suspects were finished the robbery, they fled northbound on 31st street toward 30th avenue on their motorcycles. The suspects have yet to be identified by police and they are currently being investigated.

The coffee shop is located directly across the street from City Councilwoman Tiffany Caban’s office on 30-83 31 Street.

Caban publicly supported the NYPD budget defunding many times.

In February 2021, she tweeted:

When we say #DefundThePolice we are laying out a vision – something that is possible[.] We are saying “defund police” when we refer to community-led solutions and holistic support infrastructure, as well as public health approaches for public health issues.

When we say #DefundThePolice we are laying out a vision – something that is possible.

When we refer to “defunding the police”, we mean invest in community-led and holistic support infrastructures, as well as public health solutions for public health issues.

— Tiffany Caban (@tiffany_caban) February 3, 2021

The councilwoman criticized the deployment of an NYPD anti-gun unit within her district while also taking aim at “stop-and-frisk” policing in a February tweet, the Post reported.

Our district is already home to some of the highest stop-and-frisk rates in the city. Now we will also have to contend with the unit that, despite containing roughly 5% of the force, committed nearly 1/3 of all police murders in the 20 years before it was disbanded.

Later, Caban stated that she demanded the police abandon their “failed strategies”, referring to stop-and-frisk, the deployment of an anti-gun unit and other policies.

Many have characterized stop-and-frisk as one of the successful policies that led to the Big Apple’s crime rate being drastically reduced under former Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg. Trump, a former President of the United States and a New York City resident is one of those vocally supporting stop-and-frisk in order to lower crime rates.

When an employee at Under Pressure Espresso Bar was informed of Caban’s anti-police policies by the Post, he called her a “clown.”

” Is she really serious? Is she going to discredit the police? Ha! He added, “She got no good reasons.”

Crime in the 114th district – where the robbery took place – has risen by 23 percent from the first week of August of 2021 to 2022, according to the NYPD statistics. Robbery is up by 19.5 percent, while grand larceny is up by 26.9 percent.

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