New York City Elected Mayor Eric Adams Challenges His Fellow Democrats to Condemn black lives matter Activist Hawk Newsom who said Adam’s new police plans would trigger ‘riots and bloodshed’ on the streets of NYC.
At a news conference on Friday, Adams – a centrist who has taken a tough stance on law and order – questioned why members of his party had not spoken out against Newsom’s call for violence.
“I think this is an excellent moment for the local and state and federal Democratic Party to say this: We can do justice without violence,” Adams said.
‘The elected people of the national, state and city should stand up and say, ‘We will not allow anyone to make such a comment,’ that there will be blood in our streets, because you know where the blood goes? In the streets of our community,’ Adams said.
NYC Elected Mayor Eric Adams (pictured) questioned why members of his party did not raise their voices against the violence of BLM leader Hawke Newsom.
He spoke with members of Greater New York’s Black Lives Matter two days after a tense meeting at Borough Hall, with group co-founder Hawk Newsom having some harsh words for the incoming mayor if he would go through with his plan to reinstate the NYPD. Went together Plain cloth police units.
‘If they think they are going to go back to the old ways of police, we will hit the streets again. There will be riots, there will be fire and there will be bloodshed because we believe in protecting our people,’ Newsom told reporters outside Borough Hall.
Hawk Newsom (pictured) told reporters, ‘There will be riots. There will be fire, and there will be bloodshed,’ if mayor-elect Eric Adams reinstates the NYPD’s anti-crime units
Newsom told New York Daily News On Friday he made his ‘riotous’ remarks as he was prompted by a question about plainclothes officers.
‘It made me think about the death of Eric Garner, it made me think about the death of Breonna Taylor, it made me think about the death of George Floyd,’ he said Referring to Americans, told the Daily News in a phone interview. killed by police. ‘And to think that Eric Adams legitimately wants to put our children in danger – it scares me.’
Newsom said Adams was trying to distract from the real issue by calling attention to his threat.
So he wants to make it a political circus. I want to stick to this issue – what is the plan?’ Newsom said.
BLM activist Newsom (pictured) said Adams was trying to divert attention from the real issue by calling attention to his threat.
Adams, a moderate candidate, defeated progressive rivals on a law-and-order ticket in June’s Democratic primary, pledging to crack down on violent crime, which has risen in New York City since the coronavirus pandemic.
However, during the campaigning last year, he was criticized by progressive candidates for vowing to restore the anti-crime unit.
at the closed door Competition On Wednesday, Adams told leaders that as the city’s second black mayor, he was best equipped to drive meaningful socioeconomic and educational change in New York’s communities.
‘There is one thing we agree on, that we need to change the conditions in which people are living, the historical circumstances. And conditions haven’t changed,’ Adams said during the discussion, which was live-streamed on Instagram.
And as the city’s second black mayor—after Democrat David Dinkins, who was elected as New York in the early ’90s, dealt with instances of racial unrest, crime, and fiscal turmoil, as the city currently does. Coping with the fallout from the pandemic – he was the person best suited to drive positive change in the community, Adams said.
“I know for sure if there is no one to deal with this issue better than the mayor of this city as the mayor of this city,” he said.
Adams during a tense meeting with Black Lives Matter members of Greater New York at Borough Hall on Wednesday
But as Adams and BLM representatives engage in a shouting match as they debate police policies, the mayor-elect is enraged when Hawk Newsom tells him the organization will hold him accountable for future NYPD misconduct.
Adams replied: ‘You are on the ground: stop the violence in my community. I am holding you accountable.
‘Don’t hold me accountable,’ said Adams. ‘Being the mayor, being the city president, being the state senator – I put my body on the line for my community, so I’m not here for people to come and say, ‘Eric, we hold you accountable. Will hold ,
‘No, it’s us. We need to do this together.
Adam’s comments prompted Chivona Newsom to respond: ‘You are the mayor of New York! That’s all we can do.
Adams said he disagreed, but Chivona Newsom insisted, saying he believed public safety in the city would improve if the mayor created better jobs and education. ‘This is a government issue,’ she said.
‘You need to correct,’ Adams said. ‘You need to correct based on what you’re saying. Don’t tell me, ‘I need to do this’… say, ‘We need to do this.’
The election of Adams comes as New York City is crippled by rising crime.
Citywide shootings escalated last summer after Mayor Bill de Blasio got away with a plainclothes unit in June 2020, following an outbreak of anti-police sentiment following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the ‘Defiance of Police’ movement .
Violent crime continues to increase in New York City with 2.6% of total crime in September 2021 compared to September 2020.
According to NYPD crime data, the city has had 1,526 shooting victims as of October 17 this year, nearly double the number of gun violence victims at the same time in 2019, which had 760. As of October 17, 2020, there were 1,507 shooting victims.
The data recorded 89 shooting victims aged 17 years and under from January 1 to September 26 this year. In 2019, there were 45 shooting victims in that age group during the same time period.
Of those injured in shootings, 16 youth were killed in gun violence between January 1 and September 26, 2021 – a more than 136 percent increase compared to the same period in 2019, when three children or teens were killed.
According to the latest monthly figures from the NYPD, overall crime was up 1.73 percent last month compared to November 2020. There was an increase of 8.3 percent in felony assaults and 2.1 percent in robberies.
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