New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio (D) on Sunday dismissed former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s (R) remarks last week that the “responsibility is on the black community” to reduce the need for police presence.
“I think he fundamentally misunderstands the reality,” DeBlasio said about Giuliani on ABC’s “This Week.” “We’re trying to bring police and community together. There is a problem here. There is a rift here that has to be overcome,”
“You cannot look at the incident in Missouri, another incident in Cleveland, Ohio and another incident in New York City all happening in the space of weeks and act like there’s not a problem,” he continued. “There’s something fundamental we have to get at here. And it’s not going to be helped by accusing either the community or the police of having bad intention or not doing their job. In fact, I think everyone is trying to do their job.”
Watch the interview via ABC:
The right wing defective gene pool extremists don’t do reality.
And let’s see how this very mild comment gets torn apart by the RWNJ’s and how he’s just pandering, etc. DeBlasio is definitely considered “other” to them, wildly liberal, no matter how low key or inoffensive.
I would pay attention to DeBlasio on this topic. He is white, married to a black woman and has mixed kids. He has a 17 year old son who fits the “shoot first make lame excuses later” target profile the police seem to have embraced and local prosecutors back up every time. I bet he and his wife worry every Friday night when his son goes to football games, basketball games, dances, parties and all the regular venues where white teenagers safely go without a second thought.
This isn’t academic or something poll tested for DeBlasio. It is something he lives day in and day out. It has his undivided attention.
Translation:
“There’s something fundamental we have to get at here. And it’s not going to be helped by accusing either the community or the police of having bad intention or not doing their job. In fact, I think everyone is trying to do their job.”
Some are Mayor DeBlasio.
It’s the actions of those NOT doing their jobs-- within constraints of the law and with humane consideration-- that are upsetting to those of us who do/are.
I applaud the Mayor for his commenting on Giuliani’s ignorantly racist and fascist positions.
More of this is needed from those in your strata politically Mayor DeBlasio.
jw1