“Mayor Bloomberg (left) has snubbed Borough President Marty Markowitz’s (right) impassioned plea to bring the National Guard to Hurricane Sandy-scarred Brooklyn,” brooklynpaper.com reported on Thursday, “arguing that approving the Beep’s request would be a waste of federal manpower and turn the borough into a police state. ‘We don’t need it,’ Mayor Bloomberg said on Wednesday during a press update on the city’s ongoing Hurricane Sandy cleanup. ‘The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.'” Is they really? As TTAG reported earlier today—and “common sense” dictates—that’s not how it’s going down on the sharp end. The people are taking care of their own security needs. Bloomberg vs. The National Guard on the day he endorsed Barack Obama. Who’d a thunk it? [h/t Kelly in GA]
