Mayor-elect Eric Adams downplayed the significance of a recent disagreement with Black Lives Matter activists and doubled down on his campaign pledge to create a new plainclothes police unit
NEW YORK — Thursday.
Adams' successful mayoral campaign made public safety a top priority. The former NYPD captain argued he was the candidate best suited to both tamp down crime and protect Black and brown communities from aggresive and abusive policing. On Wednesday Adams had sat down with leaders from Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, who criticized his plans to create the new unit and threatened riots and bloodshed if the Brooklyn borough president made good on his word.
In multiple appearances Thursday, Adams vowed to move forward with his plans, said the activists were not speaking for a majority of New Yorkers and suggested group leaders were mischaracterizing the substance of the meeting.
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