"We just got lucky with the election results," Mike the Cop said, referring to the fact that, except for a Nov. 4 protest that touched off scuffles between police and demonstrators on the last night when it seemed possible President Trump would win a second term, the violent disturbances the NYPD had been bracing for since the last week in October didn't materialize.
"They were prepared for the worst," he said of department brass who'd geared up for an all-hands response. "There were some skirmishes, there were some problems, but it was basically localized," referring to the perception that even the anarchists in the crowd tended to be from New York, with the notable exception of the woman from Philadelphia who spat on a cop and was immortalized by the New York Post as a "Phlegm Fatale."
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