{"id":366513,"date":"2021-11-13T03:56:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T00:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-yorks-leaders-dodge-comment-on-hawk-newsomes-threats\/"},"modified":"2021-11-13T03:56:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T00:56:13","slug":"new-yorks-leaders-dodge-comment-on-hawk-newsomes-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-yorks-leaders-dodge-comment-on-hawk-newsomes-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"#New York&#8217;s leaders dodge comment on Hawk Newsome&#8217;s threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#New York&#8217;s leaders dodge comment on Hawk <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>ome&#8217;s threats<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>How about that: Longtime local lefty activist Bertha Lewis just proved she has more guts than Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Rev. Al Sharpton and other local so-called leaders \u2014 by not dodging The Post\u2019s questions about Hawk Newsome\u2019s outrageous threats of rioting if Mayor-elect Eric Adams restores the NYPD\u2019s plainclothes anti-crime unit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive the brother a chance,\u201d said Lewis, the president of the Black Institute, of the incoming mayor. \u201cAdams has pledged a different way of policing. I\u2019m going to wait and see what Eric does and what his Police Department does.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>How hard was that? She reserves the right to criticize if she doesn\u2019t like what he does, in an implicit rebuke of Newsome\u2019s raving.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio, by contrast, literally hid behind one of his flacks, Danielle Filson, rather than take the question. Nor did she later offer up any reply on the mayor\u2019s behalf, merely pointing to his prior remarks that defended his decision to shut down the unit while \u201crespecting\u201d that Adams has his \u201cown vision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Bill: Straddles like that won\u2019t stop your potential run for governor from being any more of humiliation than your White House bid.<\/p>\n<p>Sharpton, meanwhile, ignored repeated requests for comment, though he has plenty of time to comment on the Georgia trial of Ahmaud Arbery\u2019s killers.<\/p>\n<p>Also declining to even issue a statement were Gov. Kathy Hochul, state Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Tish James and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea \u2014 though Shea\u2019s long record of frankness on these issues at least leaves little doubt where he stands.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/deblasio-115.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Mayor Bill de Blasio\" class=\"wp-image-20132932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/deblasio-115.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/deblasio-115.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/deblasio-115.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mayor Bill de Blasio will be passing the torch to Eric Adams on January 1. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images \/ Alexi Rosenfeld<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Hawk-Newsome-628.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Newsome in handcuffs walking with police down the street.\" class=\"wp-image-20132975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Hawk-Newsome-628.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Hawk-Newsome-628.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Hawk-Newsome-628.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Newsome vowed there\u2019ll be \u201criots,\u201d \u201cfire\u201d and \u201cbloodshed\u201d if Mayor-elect Eric Adams follows through with his promise to bring back plainclothes anti-crime cops.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">William Farrington<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hello, people: Hawk Newsome is a self-promoting arsonist. He may have set up his own Black Lives Matter group, which can at least try to start a riot \u2014 but no movement ever chose him as its leader.<\/p>\n<p>Adams, meanwhile, refused to be rolled.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s beyond pathetic that so many New York leaders won\u2019t even call out his pernicious nonsense. Thank God the city will soon have a leader who\u2019s not afraid to stand up for reason and decency.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Al Sharpton and other local so-called leaders \u2014 by not dodging The Post\u2019s questions about Hawk Newsome\u2019s outrageous threats of rioting if Mayor-elect Eric&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":366514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/adams-comp.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[118851,82154,5042,1471,43,98806,5044],"class_list":["post-366513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-12-21","tag-al-sharpton","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-editorial","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-nypd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}