A sensible comment from DanTe? I’m impressed. We finally agree on something.

The city will charge him if it falls and will charge him for trimming. So he can decorate as he wants and people should stop being so sensitive.

But but but THE CHILDREN!

SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

Get a grip Rose, we see worse day in and day out in the news. If you honestly think you can shelter your children from the real world then you are sadly mistaken.

…because he is a moron!

@Chris.. You are 100% right. I am so tired of all the BS , I don’t know where this country is heading but I am really scared. We can not do, say or think differently from the next person without being called names, persecuted or judged.

too bad….its his home his right

Name a single innocent person that was lynched for no reason other than their skin color

George, don’t you realize that in NYC, only white people can be racists. Blacks are “community activists”.

If you read the laws around freedom of speech, this thing (hanging a obviously black figure from a tree) is not protected. It’s obviously directed at blacks, or he wouldn’t have painted it.

Kevin – Barron was [is] a Black Panther back in the 70′s. He is the ultimate racist. He said once that he “wanted to slap a white person across the face.” It’s all racism whether by whites or blacks.

Because the lynching of white people was so prevalent in this country’s history right? Listen, the guy didn’t properly think through his decision to “hang” a scarecrow from a tree in his yard. If he thought about it and if he was sensitive to the way it would be perceived by people walking in front of his house he might not have put it there.

The thing was offensive and someone needed to tell him to remove it. Why not put a vampire or werewolf or some other scary thing in his yard? Think first…then act that was this guy’s problem. He didn’t think.

Charles Barron is black.

Didn’t know black men had white hands…..time for glasses mate

Not private property, CITY PROPERTY

S U C K A D Z N I C K!!!!!!!!!

This is true 100 %

He has all the rights to do what he wants on his property

I am wondering why the owner felt the need to paint the skin a dark color? the impact of the hanging would hardly be affected, unless ofcourse the color of the skin was important….. just saying.

You are 100% correct…the problem is that black people need to get a life!

I couldn’t agree more. The complaintant is the racist one on this issue.

I find it very offensive that a Dem council person said it was racist it was the Dems that did all the lynching.

The constitution protects our rights with the term Due Process – except if outlaw cops are involved.

The homeowner should take the policemen and the town to court for violating his/her civil rights to due process.

Culture police – Hitler had them – they were called ‘Brown Shirts’. Then Hitler got tired of them and had them all executed.

The police unconstitutionally trespassed on his property (trespassed since they had no legitimate business there) and stole his property (i.e., the decoration).

This is more proof that we live in Post-Freedom America.

you area correct..as was George Orwell

It’s gross to depict a hanging or a lynching – sorry guys. And it might be public property if it is near the street…

The owner can hang anything that he wants from his tree, even a straw jig.

Yes it is. To make up for it the cops should all be forced to dress up funny and pose in his yard when off duty

MUCH more effective than suing them at getting their attention so they respect private property in the future, and the guy gets good haloween decorations to replace the one he lost.

Who are the police to take down someone’s decorations? First AMENDMENT cop-holes!

how the hell does any authority in Ny state come onto private property and remove personal property all because some one does not like it? Total violation of civil rights, this is/was a civil matter and needed to be taken up in court if some one was so moved. Glad i left Ny years ago, last one out, turn out the lights and lock the door and throw away the key

Didn’t NYC cops just get caught framing black people for crimes?? Shouldn’t black people be concerned with that police behavior instead of this?? I would think sending innocent people to prison would be far more offensive.

Absolutely. I for one am sick to death of offended people. Good god there is enough crap going on in this country without having people getting their panties in a twist over this kind of stuff.

I agree with u. A scarecrow can be any color it is made to be without it becoming a symbol of someone’s fantasy of racist speech. My goodness, when are we going to get past all these imaginary offenses? When are people going to grow up?

On another note, when is Charles Barron going to use correct English? Isn’t it high time he stopped saying ‘ain’t'? He is not representing all the people of New York when he uses language like that. In fact, he is doing the children a disservice.

that is exactly right! if it was on HIS property and there are no local laws against hanging decorations, they better put it back up, or file theft charges against the cop..
If it was on city property, he has no case.

Amen.

Well the way I see it I am so sick and tired of Blacks calling the shots and the white authority trying to kiss their black A..es all the time. As Cane said he is not an African American he is a Black American. As Oprah said once “what are we calling oursleves these days”. I am offended by the amount of blacks that break the laws compared to whites, I am offended by the amount of black women have children out of wedlock and the daddy be gone and I support the fat a…es. So I say this to the so called African American’s I did not bring your black butt here and if you find this country so vile I suggest you book yourself on a trip to your native land. Good bye

The thing I find most offensive is an elected official using to word “ain’t”.

No one believes this display is a scarecrow and anyone who says he does is lying. The black man hanging from the tree could not possibly be anything BUT a black man hanging from a tree. It is a repulsive display. The mind who conceived it is twisted and belongs to a coward who is hiding his racist hate behind the cover of Halloween just as the Klansmen hid their faces behind white sheets.

Some people need to shut up and leave others alone , , the man has a right to do what he wants ,,,,,,,,,

What about equal opportunity for black scare crows? Why do the white scare crows get all the good halloween gigs? Somebody call the EEOC!

YOU ARE CORRECT…

I would have warned the police to get the F@@@ off my property and if NOT warn them again if they did not have a warrant I would use force period.

I forgot to add my wife would be getting my weapon and calling the State Police and FBI for fast response to remove the local officers.

where is ron kuby and the civil rights advocates

The Halloween celebrator should replace whatever it is he has that is hanging from his tree with something that looks just like Charles Barron.

If the “police” removed the scarecrow, then they should be sued for theft(You’d never get a theft charge even filed!). They could ask the owner to remove it, but they cannot remove it without a court order. It is private property.

It’s his private property… he can decorate however he pleases… If this Councilman is offended and demands that it be taken down, then he should be prepared to take down his Christmas decorations when an athiests complains, or his picture of Martin Luther King on MLK Day when there are complaints about that…. it’s a slippery slope and this man should not step onto it…

Yes it is a violation of civil rights, and of intelligence. Every one of that person’s neighbors needs to put up a scarecrow just like it. Let the police try to take them all down.

I completely agree. Where is it written that a person of a certain color can only display scarecrows or effigies of his own color. He’s doing a public service because there’s obviously too much THIN SKIN going around.

You would not want to deplict something that has never happened and everyone knows no black man has everbeen linched.

under what authority did the police enter a citizens property and cinfiscate a personal belonging?

He has a constitutional right to freedom of expression. However, it is in bad taste.
It would be just as offensive if he displayed swastikas or clan figures. Tthe police have no right to remove it but it could provoke a violent response from his neighbors.

There are few items that are important to note and need clarification: The so called “scare crow” was hanging from a tree in the middle of the sidewalk. It was NOT on private property. It was also hanging about 100 feet from PS130 The Parkside School and about 50 ft from the Windsor Terrace “Public” library. I dropped my child off at PS130 and saw a bloody, man with a noose around his neck hang from a “city” tree. It frightened and offended me! You can only imagine the children walking to school. When I saw this I did not look long enough to notice what color the so called “scare crow” was. The people in this area are big on Halloween and the decorations are usually great. This one again since it was NOT on private property it did bring the Billy Holiday song “Strange Fruit” to mind.