It’s been happening for a few years now. Men on scooters buzz up and down commercial and residential street, searching for unsuspecting victims, robbing them and taking off. They wear masks and there are, of course, no license plates on these scooters. There is a current crime spree where police think the same individual, or group, is responsible for a dozen such recent robberies between Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Astoria and through Flushing.
There has been a law on the books for generations that wearing a mask is not legal. COVID made it okay to wear a mask, but it’s time to revert that law back. But there is a push to only forbid wearing masks while in a protest. What?
Can we stop the madness?
When being flanked by someone on a scooter with a mask, shouldn’t we panic?
Ban the masks again.
