New York Mayor Bill de Blasio defends police after video shows NYPD SUV driving into protesters

[Polybius]

Source: NBC News

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio defended the New York City Police Department after a pair of the force's SUVs drove into a crowd during Saturday's protest against George Floyd's death.

De Blasio reacted after videos were posted to social media, which showed protestors moving a yellow barrier in front a police vehicle in Brooklyn. Protestors threw traffic cones and other items at the SUV as a second vehicle arrived and slowly drove through the crowd forming around it.

The first vehicle then drove into the barricade at a higher speed, sending people sprawling. Multiple city officials told NBC News there were no injuries as a result of the incident.

"It is inappropriate for protestors to surround a police vehicle and threaten police officers," he said. "That's wrong on its face and that hasn't happened in the history of protests in this city."

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[Downtown Hound]

1. Mr. Stop and Frisk approves, boy that's rich ain't it?

Thank God this assclown isn't our candidate.

[JI7]

2. De Blasio opposes stop and frisk. Were you thinking of Bloomberg ?

[Downtown Hound]

5. Sorry. Got them confused.

[Polybius]

4. He made his entire mayoral campaign about ending Stop and Frisk

That was Bloomberg.

[mahina]

3. Bye Bill

[John Fante]

6. Using an SUV as a weapon? That's all kinds of wrong.

[doc03]

7. When a police car needs to get through you get

out of the way unless your goal is to get a video
to post on social media. If you are in your car you pull over for an emergency vehicle. I don't think pedestrians can block an emergency vehicle.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Likely he was "restrained" in his comments as he's apprehensive about arousing the ire

of Pat Lynch, the President of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York. This guy is like a mini-me of Giuliani.

[lapucelle]

10. During the press confference, DeBlasio mentioned the burning debris on the roof of one of the cars.

It's probably a good idea not to throw burning shit onto the roof of a cop car hours after people were arrested for throwing molotov cocktails at cop cars.

[lapucelle]

9. What was burning on top of the first vehicle?

I wonder if the cops in that car were aware of the molotov cocktails that had been thrown at a cop cars the night before.

https://abc7ny.com/brooklyn-protests-protest-arrests-sisters-throw-molotov-cocktail-at-police-car-george-floyd/6221319/

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/upstate-ny-woman-behind-molotov-cocktail-attack-on-nypd-officers-2-others-federally-charged/2440200/

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/05/31/molotov-cocktail-brooklyn-ny/

[mac56]

11. He's right.

[SharonClark]

12. He's right.

And they aren't 'protesters'. They're instigators and assholes who hurt the cause of those protesting injustice.

[totodeinhere]

13. What they are saying is it's alright to drive through a crowd of protesters if that's what it

takes to save their lives. I don't know if I buy that or not.

[Miguelito Loveless]

14. I am ok with police response until the one cop floors it

At that point, the intent is to kill people.

[lsewpershad]

15. Now go to hell

Billy boy.

[elias7]

16. I saw the video after his description. Didn't match up.

The police cars were not surrounded and the cops were in no danger. They just drove into people. I totally disagree with Deblasio.

[ancianita]

17. +1

DeBlasio's PR talk will backfire on him in the next election. He'd better be more judicious in his statements about policing and protesting.

[Polybius]

19. He can't run again

Bloomberg changed it back to two terms only, after he changed the law to three so he could run for a third term.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. WTF Mr. Mayor?

[Bayard]

20. In the very beginning of the clip,

Are people pushing tables, or what, into the front of the cop car to keep it from going forward? Still wrong, but I'm guessing the second car was trying not to get caught in such a manner.

[cstanleytech]

21. Not sure but it did look like a barrier of some sort as well as they started throwing things at the

vehicle.