{"id":458156,"date":"2022-06-05T22:43:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T19:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/eric-adams-slaps-down-bad-press-after-naming-gun-czar-andre-t-mitchell\/"},"modified":"2022-06-05T22:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T19:43:19","slug":"eric-adams-slaps-down-bad-press-after-naming-gun-czar-andre-t-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-adams-slaps-down-bad-press-after-naming-gun-czar-andre-t-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"#Eric Adams slaps down bad press after naming gun czar Andre T. 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Mitchell&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CEric_Adams_slaps_down_bad_press_after_naming_gun_czar_Andre_T_Mitchell%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Eric Adams slaps down bad press after naming gun czar Andre T. Mitchell&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams brushed aside bad press\u00a0days after picking an activist with a checkered past as his \u201cgun violence prevention czar,\u201d instructing church-goers on Sunday to tell skeptics to \u201cleave him alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to congregants at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Brooklyn, Adams slammed the pharmaceutical and food industries, claiming they profit off black Americans \u2014 before saying he\u2019s been unfairly pilloried by the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have been making money off of us. \u2026 People have been making so much money off of us. Now, I come along. I am not fighting against policies; I\u2019m fighting against their\u00a0profit,\u201d he said at the conclusion of the 18-minute speech. \u201cAnd what I\u2019m saying and doing is hurting the bottom line of those systems that have eaten off of us for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that\u2019s why you see all those negative stories in the paper about me,\u201d the mayor added. \u201cThat\u2019s why you hear all those attacks. That\u2019s why you hear the constant \u2018why Eric should not have been mayor.\u2019 That is what you\u2019re hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Hizzoner didn\u2019t elaborate on the unflattering coverage, his address came four days after he <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointed Andre T. Mitchell as his \u201cgun violence czar,\u201d tasked with reducing Big Apple shootings.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-05.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Mayor Eric Adams\" class=\"wp-image-22541369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-05.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mayor Eric Adams spoke about negative press coverage of his administration during a speech at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Brooklyn on June 5, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Michael Dalton<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2019, the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/6393587\/MANUPDOI.pdf\">city Department of Investigation\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0that Mitchell\u2019s nonprofit Cure Violence \u2014 which\u00a0has received $26.6 million in city funding since 2010 \u2014 had significant financial irregularities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A probe found that\u00a0Mitchell allegedly used money from the group for personal use and gave jobs to family members, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> outlet <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/brooklyn\/2019\/9\/10\/21210836\/city-probers-flagged-anti-violence-group-cited-after-brownsville-shooting\">The City reported at the time<\/a>. During the last two years,\u00a0more than $15,000 from credit card and delivery sales raised by an East New York coffee shop run by the group ended up in Mitchell\u2019s personal bank account.<\/p>\n<p>The Brownsville-raised Mitchell \u2014 who was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in 1988 for a killing\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/53ee4f0be4b015b9c3690d84\/t\/5c34d1ea40ec9a9a46a1d97d\/1546965482843\/A.+T.+Mitchell%27s+Narrative.pdf\">that\u00a0he\u00a0says he did not commit<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 formed Man Up! more than a decade after being paroled in 1992.\u00a0<\/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\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-02.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Andre T. Mitchell\" class=\"wp-image-22541378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Adams speech about negative media coverage came days after picking controversial activist Andre T. Mitchell to be his gun violence czar.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Mike Segar<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-04.jpg?w=976\" alt=\"Children protest gun violence\" class=\"wp-image-22541389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1952 1952w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1464 1464w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=976 976w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=488 488w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\"\/><figcaption>Mitchell will be tasked with reducing the gun violence that has plagued the city.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stephen Shaver\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Sunday, Adams \u2013 whose\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/06\/23\/nyregion\/nyc-mayor-primary-results-precinct-map.html\">base of support came from working- and middle-class parts of the outer boroughs<\/a>\u00a0during his\u00a0mayoral Democratic primary victory last year\u00a0\u2014 told the mostly black congregants of the Bedford-Stuyvesant church to tune out the negative press about him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so when you have all those folks that are running around that look like us and buy into that philosophy, I need for you to say in a very godly way, \u2018Negro, if you\u2019re not going to help him, leave him alone and let him do his job,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Also during his Sunday address, the\u00a0mostly vegan mayor\u00a0\u2014 who\u00a0has said he reversed his Type 2 diabetes with a plant-based diet\u00a0\u2014 encouraged those in the pews to\u00a0adopt healthy eating habits.<\/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\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-01.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Eric Adams and Andre T. Mitchell\" class=\"wp-image-22541419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-gun-czar-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>In 2019 the city Department of Investigation found that  Mitchell\u2019s nonprofit Cure Violence had financial irregularities.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">EPA\/JUSTIN LANE<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bklyner.com\/it-is-not-in-their-dna-its-in-their-dinner-bp-wants-healthier-food-at-public-schools\/\">not in our DNA; it\u2019s in our dinner<\/a>. It\u2019s not in our lineage; it\u2019s in our lunch. It\u2019s not where we were born; it\u2019s our breakfast,\u201d said the salubrious former state senator, comparing junk food to crack cocaine in\u00a0its\u00a0addictiveness. \u201cWhen I woke up, and my vision loss went away, nerve damage went away, the ulcer went away, I mean it was such a powerful moment that all I had to do was alter my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI dropped 35 pounds. I tell people I don\u2019t have a six pack; I have a case. My body is tight now, \u201d he added with a laugh.\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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