From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   background:  Big FFFEEAAR campaign claiming that Fare Evaders   
   On The Subway are   
      
   a: SCARY   
   b: Ripping off the system costing everyone else plenty   
   c: and ain't just the poor folk who can't afford the fare   
      
   So... the Transit Cops and their enablers and fellow fear mongerers   
   showed a video clip of a turnstyle evader holding her cup of   
   designer coffee.   
      
   While I certainly call out The Tabloid of Record when they pull   
   bumdass stupid shit (well, the NY Post alternates with the WSJ   
   as Murdoch's Pride and Joy), gotta give them credit here:   
      
   [NY Post]   
      
     MTA selectively edited footage of 'latte-sipping' fare beater   
      
   A video that claims to show a "latte-sipping" Yuppy committing fare evasion by   
   sneaking under a turnstile was selectively edited by the MTA's communications   
   team.   
      
   According to a full clip of the incident obtained by The Post, the customer   
   made at least one attempt to swipe her MetroCard before being forced to crawl   
   under the turnstile.   
      
   The short clip has been repeatedly referenced by MTA leaders to claim that   
   ordinary commuters also take part in illegal and antisocial behavior on the   
   train.   
      
   "We have countless images of people in designer clothes, carrying $7 lattes,   
   waltzing through emergency gates at Wall Street or on the Upper East Side," MTA   
   CEO Janno Lieber claimed during an April 26 speech to the Association for a   
   Better New York.   
              .....   
   "They are outraged and demoralized when they see people who are better off, as   
   I say, carrying $7 lattes -- and we have this on video -- waltzing through the   
   emergency exit gates," Lieber said.   
        ....   
   In response to a Post reporter questioning whether such a video exists, MTA   
   Communications Director Tim Minton tweeted a 7-second cut of footage dated Nov.   
   2018 of what he described as a "latte-carrying [rider] ducking their fare share   
   like this one."   
      ....   
   But a longer, 14-second cut of the video -- which the MTA shared on Tuesday in   
   response to an inquiry from The Post -- showed the alleged thief clearly   
   attempting to swipe her MetroCard before ducking under the turnstile.   
          ======   
   rest, including the video:   
   https://nypost.com/2022/06/01/mta-selectively-edited-footage-of-   
   atte-sipping-farebeater/   
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