Posted on 11/11/2021 9:10:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
New York City’s Black Lives Matter chapter threatened "riots" and "bloodshed" in the streets if Mayor-elect Eric Adams reinstated the police department’s anti-crime units which were disbanded at the height of 2020's Black Lives Matter protests and riots. Progressives were furious when Adams said he would reinstate the units during his campaign.
Hawk Newsome, co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, said after a meeting with Adams in Brooklyn Borough Hall Wednesday, "If he thinks that they’re going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are going to take to the streets again. There will be riots, there will be fire and there will be bloodshed because we believe in defending our people."
Newsome told The Daily News, "So, there is no way that he is going to let some Gestapo come in here and harm our people. We pray for peace but ... prepare for the worst." Chivona Newsome, a BLM co-founder and sister of Hawk Newsome added, "We will shut the city down. We will shut down City Hall, and we will give him hell and make it a nightmare."
During the meeting, which was livestreamed on Instagram by an attendee, Adams and the BLM activists got into a heated argument over police policies.
Hawk Newsome told Adams that BLM would hold him responsible for any future misconduct by the NYPD.
Adams responded, "Stop the violence in my community. I’m holding you accountable. Don’t hold me accountable. Being the mayor, being the borough president, being the state senator, I put my body on the line for my community, so I’m not here for folks to come and say, 'Eric, we’re gonna hold you accountable. No, it’s us. We need to do this together.'" After Chivona challenged him Adams added, "Don’t tell me, 'I need to do this' … say, 'We need to do this.'"
Later in the meeting, Adams responded to another activist who accused him of not holding NYPD accountable saying, "Brother, I mean, have you been living under rock?" adding that he has been "fighting injustices" during his decades-long career as an NYPD captain and a politician. "The same things I’ve been doing over the past 35 years I’m going to continue to do, and maybe you should look at those things I have done."
After the meeting, Chivona Newsome told The Daily News "I don’t know if it was misogyny or ageism, but as the only woman in the room, as the co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, Mayor-elect Adams thought it was best to correct me, and he wants to know how he can hold me accountable. We are holding him accountable whether he chooses to hold himself accountable or not."
If crime grows in NYC, more people will move out.
They've already done that in cities all over the US. What am I missing here?
Yet, he won.
Attack on democracy, anyone?
Anyone?
Bernstein? Bernstein?
I guess a bunch of thugs make legislation now. “How did your country descend into a third world s#ithole”? “Slow at first, then all at once”.
Hey now that’s fine, good thing they are NOT wearing maga hats otherwise they would SO totally be called insurrectionists, but since they vote Democrat they can make threats like that, all good nothing to see here
When you don’t get what you want: Riot.
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Yep, mob rule. Let’s call it what it is.
As long as they commit their violence at night its all good says AG Garland
Warriors, Come Out To Play-Ay !!!
Try getting the Dept. of Justice to recognize that
Let me understand this...”criminals threaten more crime if police try to reduce crime.”
Do I have that right?
The only difference is that the aforementioned three examples do business in drug dealing and human trafficking whereas BLM does business in looting, rioting and extortion.
There is a reason the GEH triangle coyotes and criminals charge US $9,000 to US $12,000 per family to smuggle them out of the hell hole they have created because that is the average value of a household's total assets (including their home) there.
Wrong!
They’re too busy investigating some Hells Angels biker rally for gun running
To teach people like Mr. Newsome a lesson he should be immediately arrested and held in solitary unable to communicate for, say, 4-8 months. Then charge him for inciting public violence and rioting. In addition, then place a bond so high no one can afford it. Our so called leaders need to start dealing with these miscreants decisively and harshly and send a clear message that behavior like this will just not be tolerated in a civil society. But we know that will never ever happen.....
The very fact that Adams met either BLM means he’s gonna cave and it’ll be business as usual in NYC.
guess we’ll see just exactly who runs Barter Town...
Recognize? Merrick Garland's Department of Justice is in partnership with them, much as the governments of GEH are in partnership with the drug dealing human trafficking gangs of their respective countries. They just won't admit it.
The anti-crime units must have been effective.
If they had any sense of irony, or any sense at all for that matter, they might see the irony in their threat...
Millions like me will never step foot back in NYC. Even during the Bloomberg years the Giuliani revival of the Big Apple was sufficiently maintained that most tourists felt safe, and were able to enjoy the sights, the shows and the restaurants. Never again.
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