I used to think these were terrible ideas for films, now I’m beginning to think this ain’t a half bad idea for some Blue State cities
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."
Send them all to Sing Sing! Let the real criminals sort them out!
Culture matters. Did you see where blm threatened the mayor of Cheyenne?
I didn’t either.
sounds like an opportunity for the police to gather up these people when they riot. once they are off the streets, the riots will not continue.
I was last in New York City in 2006 or 2007. Took the train, and met a friend who flew in from Nevada. We went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Natural History Museum. No reason to go ever again.
>their response to police responding to crimes will be to ... commit crimes?
They’ve gotten their way doing this so far; they won’t stop now for logic or ‘please.’
It’s on tape and in print, right there.
What more do these commie bastard enabling sycophants need to show how evil THEIR side that they condone and promote is?
Dig that demographic wench pulling out ANY card she can.
If SHE gets rebutted, it’s because of sex, or age….if not racism (guess she’s withholding that since he’s black).
Pull out any card you can!
I think I will cry sexism every time some commie lib tries to shut me down!
Exactly.
Need make it clear: “defund the police” leads to Kenosha-type filling of a power vacuum.
One purpose of police is to minimize consequences to criminals - lest justice be overdone. If trained & equipped & managed police can’t address crime, citizens will - violently.
Aalesii
“There will be riots, there will be fire and there will be bloodshed ...”
Riots and arson and blood. Oh, my.
Just exactly what an anti-crime unit is meant to combat.
BLM = commie terrorists
Now how did BLM get the reputation for being a bloodthirsty, violent domestic terrorist mob?
This sounds like Nelson Mandela or Dr.Martin Luther King could have said this. Must be racist reporting smearing BLM.
Cool. Let the games begin. I and other Patriots will be watching what tactics the BLM use to stop local LE.
This is a real insurrection - true enemies of the state.
He was a politician in uniform and is still one now having already “taken a knee” to BLM,.....
To my friends that still reside and/or work in Fun City, good luck...you’ll need it with this one.
Domestic terrorism, terroristic threats.
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