Mayor de Blasio cowardly uses NYPD as a scapegoat to blame for riots, boys in blue push back
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BizPac Review
December 19, 2020
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is under fire again for disrespecting law enforcement and seeming to blame officers for violent protests over the summer.
The Democrat was accused of using police officers as a “scapegoat” for the riots and violent demonstrations that unfolded in New York City following the death of George Floyd in May. The head of the union representing New York City detectives called de Blasio out in a scathing statement following his public apology for police actions.
Reacting to a Department of Investigations Protest Report released on Friday, de Blasio issued an apology in a nearly seven-minute video message expressing his “remorse” and vowing that the NYPD will “do better.”
“It’s a season of reflection right now, that’s what the holidays are,” he said. “I read this report, and I agree with it. I agree with its analysis and I agree with its recommendations, because it makes very clear we’ve got to do something different, and we’ve got to do something better.”
“I look back with remorse. I wish I had done better,” he said of his handling of the protests in May and June. “I want everyone to understand that. And I’m sorry I didn’t do better. And I’ve learned a lot of valuable lessons. And I want our police department to do better. And I’m going to insist upon that.”
Of course, many would concur that the liberal mayor has plenty to be sorry for in his mis-handling of the violence, but de Blasio was not specific about his own actions. During his regular press briefing on Friday, he was asked directly by one reporter “exactly what it is you’re apologizing for?”
“I don’t feel I did good enough, that’s why I apologized,” he replied.
Paul DiGiacomo, president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, slammed the mayor as well as Department of Investigation Commissioner Margaret Garnett.
“The irony that the DOI Commissioner is appointed directly by the Mayor of New York City should not be lost on anyone,” DiGiacomo said in a blistering statement on Friday. “Our brave men and women in blue were sent to do an impossible job by elected officials who send mix messages about what they want and have no experience in these dangerous situations.”
“As hundreds of cops were injured and businesses destroyed, there was only one thing we could count on — no support from City Hall and Albany,” he said, referring to New York’s state capital. “Perhaps our elected officials are the ones who need ‘new training.'”
The Department of Investigation report found that “heightened tensions” during the summer protests were exacerbated by excessive force used by police officers against protesters.
“NYPD use of force and crowd control tactics often failed to discriminate between lawful, peaceful protesters and unlawful actors, and contributed to the perception that officers were exercising force in some cases beyond what was necessary under the circumstances,” the 100-page report concluded.
De Blasio used the report’s findings and his vow to do things “differently” moving forward as a segue in his press briefing to announce a need to “redistribute wealth” in the city.
The Democrat addressed “systemic racism” in education and elsewhere as
he targeted income inequalities, and openly declared that the
redistribution of wealth is the government’s “mission” in education.
2 comments:
Violence will be met with violence. Resisting arrest is not pretty. NYC will never recover from DeBlasio's Socialism Circus.
DeBlasio is a liberal psychopath asswipe. Why anybody believes ANYTHING he says is beyond me. He could step out of Gracie Mansion on Christmas Day and state that it was cold outside and I would check the weather report.
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