{"id":1930475,"date":"2023-05-13T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nyc-first-lady-told-residents-to-physically-intervene-to-stop-street-harassment\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T19:44:15","slug":"former-nyc-first-lady-told-residents-to-physically-intervene-to-stop-street-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nyc-first-lady-told-residents-to-physically-intervene-to-stop-street-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NYC First Lady Told Residents To \u2018Physically Intervene\u2019 To Stop Street Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-nyc-first-lady-told-residents-to-physically-intervene-to-stop-street-harassment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1930475&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Stand Up Against Street Harassment: A Call to Action<\/h2>\n<h3>Chirlane McCray&#8217;s Message<\/h3>\n<p>In March 2021, Chirlane McCray, co-chair of New York City\u2019s Task Force on Racial Inclusion and Equity, took to Twitter to urge New Yorkers to stand up for their neighbors and intervene when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-defunding-the-police-nyc-first-lady-pleads-for-citizens-to-intervene-in-violent-crimes-as-assaults-spike\/\" title=\"After \u2018Defunding The Police,\u2019 NYC First Lady Pleads For Citizens To Intervene In Violent Crimes As Assaults Spike\">witnessing hateful violence<\/a> or harassment. Her message was in response to the rise in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-blasted-for-airing-royal-familys-dirty-laundry-in-oprah-interview-whine-athon\/\" title=\"Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Blasted For Airing Royal Family\u2019s Dirty Laundry In Oprah Interview: \u2018Whine-athon\u2019\">racist attacks<\/a> against Asians and the &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; movement. She shared five tactics for &#8220;interrupting&#8221; harassment, including &#8220;Direct: Respond directly to the aggressor or physically intervene and only after assessing the situation. Be confident, assertive, calm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The Tragic Incident<\/h3>\n<p>However, when Marine Daniel Penny followed McCray&#8217;s advice and physically intervened to stop a violent criminal from harassing people on a subway train, he was charged with second-degree manslaughter by New York\u2019s district attorney, Alvin Bragg. Despite putting the aggressor in a chokehold to restrain him and then putting him in the &#8220;recovery position&#8221; after the threat was neutralized, the aggressor died. <\/p>\n<h3>The Nonprofit&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>McCray was sharing techniques from a nonprofit called Right To Be, previously called Hollaback, that is dedicated to stopping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-rule-attackers-burn-transgender-afghans-feet-in-torture-attack\/\" title=\"Taliban Rule: Attackers Burn Transgender Afghan's Feet in Torture Attack\">street harassment<\/a>. The group runs trainings on &#8220;bystander intervention&#8221; and &#8220;stand[ing] up against street harassment,&#8221; including at schools and for teacher certification. However, recent materials seem to have dropped &#8220;physically intervening&#8221; from the fifth tactic. <\/p>\n<p>Right To Be did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire on its view on the Penny-Neely incident as specialists in intervention and opposition to street harassment. Its president is Emily May, who goes by the pronouns she\/they and is a member of the mayor\u2019s appointed Street Harassment Prevention Advisory Board.<\/p>\n<h3>The Nonprofit&#8217;s Focus<\/h3>\n<p>Right To Be, which received a grant in 2017 from George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundations, is focused heavily on racial identity. It says it is preserving the &#8220;Right to be&#8221; &#8220;Black,&#8221; &#8220;Latinx,&#8221; &#8220;LGBTQIA+,&#8221; &#8220;Asian,&#8221; &#8220;Muslim,&#8221; and &#8220;more,&#8221; but it does not explicitly include white or Marine, like Penny. Despite its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nyc-first-lady-told-residents-to-physically-intervene-to-stop-street-harassment\/\" title=\"Ex-NYC First Lady Urged People to Intervene Against Street Harassment.\">mission positing street harassment<\/a> as an important issue, the nonprofit appeared to characterize the aggressor in sympathetic terms. <\/p>\n<h3>A Call to End Street Harassment<\/h3>\n<p>Street harassment is a continuous form of silencing victims. It creates a cycle of abuse, where everyday people are taught to walk fast and ignore comments, instead of fighting to be free to walk anywhere! Let&#8217;s stand up against street harassment and create a safer community for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, the wife of New York City\u2019s then-mayor told residents to stand up for fellow residents to stop street harassment, including by \u201cphysically intervening\u201d \u2013 an act for which Marine Daniel Penny was taken into custody for on Friday. In March 2021, during the height of the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement and concern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1930476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[16648,17643,4800,4282,7332,4647,4355,3737],"class_list":["post-1930475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-physically","tag-harassment","tag-intervene","tag-lady","tag-nyc","tag-residents","tag-street","tag-told"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}