Protest at Councilman Brannan’s Office Today – Brannan’s Staffer Tried to Shame Protesters
Residents saw Councilman Brannan talking to the police outside the office up until fifteen minutes before the protest. Then Councilman Brannan disappeared.
Several Bay Ridge residents sent me pictures of a man photographing them at the protest. I recognized Justin Brannan’s staffer from Community Board 10 meetings.
The staffer is a community liaison. How can you be a community liason if you don’t understand people have the right to protest? Community Board 10 should not allow him to act as a liason because this is inappropriate.
The staffer returned to the office and thought he went unnoticed. He was boo’d by the protesters.
Here’s the sad part: This guy knows the residents in The Towers have not received any information about the homeless shelter from Justin Brannan. Brannan has not held any community meetings or sent information about the shelter through the mail. This is just mean.
A homeless shelter is being put up next to their home. Of course someone should have spoken to the residents there by now!
Some of the children living in The Towers will be walking past this Homeless Shelter to get to school. Of course adults in Bay Ridge are going to protest this!
Here’s where things got ugly….Justin Brannan went after the protesters and posted the photo his staffer took on X (formerly Twitter) while they were outside his office. (See here – it’s actually still up!)
The people who peacefully protested today should be proud of themselves for standing up for our community.
I believe many of the people living in The Towers are Democrats, but what if they aren’t? Why would the Councilman be so obsessed with calling anyone a Maga?
In flyers, Brannan says that he doesn’t care what party people belong to:
Photo: Tom Hilton
I guess that’s his way of dehumanizing someone because they called out his failure to communicate. People have the right to protest, even if Justin Brannan wants to act like a fascist and try to stop them.
Residents noted that the 68th Precinct had six police officers, three community affairs officers and a Captain at the protest.
Justin Brannan’s job isn’t to be a teenager and post resident’s picture on the social media to mock residents – it’s to provide residents with information.
Ironically, years ago, Justin Brannan and Chris McCreight spoke out against a politician who hid from protesters.
Why didn’t Democrat District Leader, Chris McCreight take the names of all the protesters and contact them one-by-on? McCreight knows these residents have received very little information about the homeless shelter!
Hugs,
marlene
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