The Spectacle of an Obama NYC visit

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Published 2014-10-09
Oct. 7 (Bloomberg Politics) Griffin Hammond looks at the spectacle of President Obama's highly-guarded visits to New York City—the Secret Service, police, onlookers (and dump trucks!) that congregate outside his post-UN dinner at Estela on Houston St (Sep. 24), and a Democratic fundraiser at a restaurant called White Street (Oct. 7).

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All Comments (21)
  • @gerffreg6390
    meanwhile in The Netherlands: if you're lucky you might see our prime minister cycling by
  • @scott8572
    Imagine being a waiter for a restaurant the President was going to be eating at, but then being turned away by police right before the shift
  • This happened to me when Pope Francis visited 113th street and 2nd Avenue, New York. I live on 112th st and 2nd. I woke up on a Sunday , went outside and saw massive crowds, NYPD and barricades. Didn't know what was going on. Got my sandwich and tried go back to my apartment. NYPD refused to let me through- had to wait for the Pope to leave before I could go home.
  • @Malcolmdeeb
    The one cool thing I get to say I did in the life was to drive one of the press vans in an Obama motorcade.
  • @gracier2718
    1:39 there's the secret service agent who everyone though had a fake hand during Trump's inauguration
  • @kojack635
    I could start so many arguments, but I just think this motorcade is cool.
  • @traceyscott909
    It was pretty tense when Obama came to Newark, New Jersey in the fall of 2015. Secret Service was EVERYWHERE! Folks lined up downtown to see him, the crowd was huge.
  • @urbannpa
    I think this is why Obama did a lot of walk through in small fast food places during to be more personable and be around people.
  • If anyone notices the bald secret service agent that says thanks folks is the same one who in trumps inauguration parade who has the “fake hand” and his real hand is on the trigger of a gun.
  • @xyeBbIukanaL
    In Russian Federation president moves only on empty streets.
  • @gwimmer98
    I saw the motorcade in Manhattan once. I think it was at 54th and 5th
  • @QuinnyKR
    That's good to use sand trucks to protect him. In the country that I live in they used to use public transport buses to block road from suicide bomb attacks, when VIP goes from one place to another within the capital city, yeah you guessed it "with real life people inside the buses". And that was not for president but the Secretary of defense.
  • @janety7264
    I laughed out loud when narrator said: show is over lol 😂
  • @Woktavius
    Went to DC with my mom when i was like 16. Was standing by myself out front of the native american museum and suddenly like 12 police cars went by, then a bunch of motorcycles then about 20 suvs and a limo. As the limo went by, I waved, the extremely dark tinted window suddenly became see thru and there was obama waving at me
  • @lasal8613
    It’s crazy, I shook his hand on his first campaign trail. Now he’s untouchable