Mayor-elect Adams calls on Dems to condemn BLM leader's 'riot' threat -- but activist claims 'this a [View all]
Source: Daily News
Mayor-elect Adams calls on Dems to condemn BLM leader’s ‘riot’ threat — but activist claims ‘this a political circus’
Mayor-elect Eric Adams dared national and local Democrats on Friday to condemn a Black Lives Matter leader who said the incoming mayor’s policies on policing will trigger “riots” and “bloodshed” in the city — but the activist behind the threat claimed Adams is creating a “circus” instead of focusing on the issues.
Adams — who drew the threat over his plan to as mayor reinstate the NYPD’s plainclothes cop units — said he’s perplexed by the silence from prominent Democrats in the face of the heated comments from BLM activist Hawk Newsome.
“I have no idea,” Adams said at a press conference in Brooklyn when asked why more members of his party haven’t spoken out against Newsome. “I think that this is an excellent moment for the local and state and federal Democratic Party to state: We could have justice without violence.”
Highlighting Newsome’s focus on “bloodshed,” Adams continued: “National, state and city electeds should stand up and say, ‘we will never allow anyone to make those comments,’ that there will be blood in our streets, because you know where that blood ends up? In the streets of our community.”
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