Members of the Guardian Angels (A vigilante-group dedicated to fight crime in New York City) pose for a picture with leader Curtis Sliwa (1980)
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Members of the Guardian Angels (A vigilante-group dedicated to fight crime in New York City) pose for a picture with leader Curtis Sliwa (1980)
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I bet they got into so many breakdancing battles on the subway.
They were some bad dudes doing good work on those subways.
Warriors come out to pllllllaaaaayyyy
This isn’t the Knights of the Night?
Knight of the Night
Should be Mayor
They fucking saved New York. I mean, it likely revitalizes eventually, but these guys changed things much quicker than normal progress.
YMCA
Fucking sing it….
That’s right….
Keep going…YMCA
Too bad he is a Republican now.
The studs add to buddy’s offensive rating.
I didn’t know Giovanni Rabissi was a guardian angel
NYC may need them back
They had a pretty strong presence in New Haven, CT too. I was too young to really remember them, but my mother (a single mom) spoke very highly of them.
Self-appointed goon squad that was all about getting headlines for Sliwa. I once saw them unlawfully detain a man they thought was a drug dealer who turned out to be a diabetic. Police arrived onthe scene and let him go. These idiots were a bunch of clowns.
Would love a good doc or podcast about them.
I remember them
I’m not American but I thought they did a great job.
Sliwa was a victim of a murder attempt, a hit put out by John Gotti Jr. Sliwa made remarks about Gotti’s father, John Gotti. Supposedly the hit man stole a taxi and posed as a taxi driver, where Sliwa hailed this particular cab. The hit man shot Sliwa in the private parts and groin five times, causing major damage to them and his digestive system.
There was a chapter in Denver in the early nineties that got off on harassing people walking home from the bar. If you saw them a couple blocks ahead you’d better detour because they’d beat you up for being out at that time of night. Typical lowlifes who needed the ego boost of thinking they were better than everyone else. Good riddance.
Clockwork orange vibes
Warriors come out to play.
… he wore a raaaaaspberry beret .
I was in NYC for Fleet Week in the late 90s, back when I was in the Canadian Navy. After an event in the Intrepid a few buddies and myself walked up to Taco Bell in our uniforms. As soon as we sat down some Guardian Angel dudes chased us out “before we could start any problems”. Welcome to the big apple I guess.
They trialled it out in London during the 80s 90s but it never took off. I remember seeing one or two on tube lines..
Looks like David Williams walked onto the set of a gay porn shoot
this needs a where are they now story.
with a what we look like now.
I always liked this “ideas but if they tried it now they’d get their butts shot.
Love these guys. When I was a kid, I lived in a VERY poor and shady apartment complex. Some Guardian Angels folks stayed there for over a year and helped by walking the complex and chasing thieves I recall. A lot less crime and broken into apartment because of their presence. I felt a lot more safe with them there. Great group of people.
“I don’t wanna see you or your dirty balls in my alley again!”
He is the human equivalent of project veritas
Can’t believe how divisive they are in these comments.
They look like they fought the Warriors
When Indianapolis hosted the Super Bowl in 2012 my friends and I rode a shuttle bus with a group of Guardian Angels from Boston who’d come down for the game (the Pats were playing). We were Indianapolis natives and were laughing because downtown Indianapolis was super safe and low crime and here were these vigilantes in uniform. They had cool accents though
The podcast ‘You’re Wrong About’ did a really great episode on them, with lots of details on Sliwa.
Why is there an illuminati eye on their shirts?
Plumbers by day, crime fighters by night?
the person he is today is nothing like who he was when this photo was taken.