On Friday (December 18), New York City Mayor Michael White affirmed the Department of Investigation’s (DOI) report on the NYPD’s investigation into the June crackdown on BLM protesters, hoping that the department would reflect on the reasons for the unfairness of law enforcement and the loss of public trust. The police union (PBA) was unhappy with White’s statement, saying that initially, when out on duty to enforce the law, it did not receive any strategy and support from the city.
Whitehouse wants NYPD to reflect on law enforcement injustice
DOI issued a 111-page report, which listed the city’s police department in June to combat BLM protests, there is a lack of fairness in law enforcement. The report points out that the NYPD’s institutional problems have led to inaccurate decision-making and enforcement, excessive violence against “peaceful” protesters, and suppression of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees citizens’ freedom of assembly and expression. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of assembly and speech and requires NYPD to transform the system.
Early Friday morning, Mayor Whitehouse tweeted a six-minute video in which he said, “It’s a season of reflection,” and said, “I read and agree with the (DOI) report. I agree with its (the report’s) analysis and I agree with its recommendations because it’s very clear that we have to change and do something better.”
Whitehouse said he reflected on his handling of the BLM protests in May and June, “I hope everyone understands that. I’m sorry I didn’t do a better job. And I learned a lot of valuable lessons. I hope the police department does a better job. I will stand by that.”
In response to the mayor’s remarks, Patrick Lynch, president of the New York City police union, expressed his displeasure.
Lynch said the DOI report illustrates what happened to the city’s police department on the first night of the riot: “Our city’s leaders failed to plan, failed to strategize, and failed to provide support in response to the riot, which is fundamentally different from the thousands of demonstrations that police successfully protect each year.”
The city’s attitude in the face of “black life expensive”
White said the city police department should not use violence against “peaceful” BLM protesters, but he avoided saying that the city had explicitly banned large gatherings in New York City until the end of September, meaning that the crackdown on BLM demonstrations and protests was itself a case of police acting on city orders.
On May 30, White’s daughter Chiara de Blasio was arrested in Manhattan after she participated in a violent BLM protest and refused to leave at the request of police. After saying she would not cut funding for the city’s police department, White announced on June 30 that she would cut the department’s $1 billion budget for fiscal year 2021.
At a press conference on August 3, Whitehouse admitted that the giant yellow letters “Black Lives Matter” painted on the front of Trump Tower and the BLM painting “Art” in the five boroughs did not go through the application process. In response, Whitehouse explained, “(BLM) that is beyond all normal reality, because we are at a moment in history where we have to speak out and act, and that’s the decision I made.”
Veteran media personality: Extreme judicial reform constitutes institutional discrimination against law-abiding citizens
As for the changing relationship between the New York City government and the city police department, Tang Hao, a veteran New York media personality and host of “Crossroads of the World,” believes that if there are any excesses or improprieties in the way the police enforce the law, they do need to be reformed and corrected, but we must also put ourselves in their shoes and consider that many police officers are risking their lives when they enforce the law.
In particular, we have seen many cases of ‘overkill’ by leftist governments or leftist councils across the United States, drastically reducing police budgets or tying the hands and feet of police officers, leaving less and less room for law enforcement. or is it protecting those few unknown characters who are suspected of breaking the law?”
Tang Hao said, “Reasonable protection of human rights and reform of the judiciary are desirable, but we must not go to extremes and overdo it. We have seen too many leftist policies with the nice slogan of ‘political correctness’ that actually punish the law-abiding and encourage or connive at the lawless.”
Tang said, “Such extreme governance, on the contrary, constitutes systemic discrimination against the general public, posing an increasing risk to their personal and property security, which will only increasingly lose public support and drive more and more middle-class or mainstream elites seeking a safe life to gradually leave New York, leaving New York’s economy, finances, security, reputation and international appeal New York’s economy, finances, security, reputation and international appeal will gradually deteriorate.”
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