NYC’s Mayor Adams Rejects “Defund the Police” Proposals

Eric Adams, New York City Mayor (D), rejected “woke” Strategies to defund New York Police Department, Thursday He claimed that the “loudest” A minority has “hijacked the term progressive,” The New York Post reported.

Adams attacked the Capitol on Thursday “Progressive Caucus” Thank you for trying to “reduce the size and scope of the NYPD.” According to the mayor of Toronto, members who refuse to sign a pledge not to fund law enforcement were threatened by the caucus.

CNN spoke with Adams, who said that Adams believed in a “numerical minority” Democrats “have hijacked the term progressive.” He pledged to continue his support “pro-public safety” And “pro-proper policing” policies.

“I have been progressive all my life,” Adams said. “Look at the issues I fought for, from police reform, housing, education. But we’ve allowed a small number that are the loudest, and they’ve hijacked the true meaning of the Democratic Party.”

He criticised the “small number on the fringe ends of our party.”

“We’re not for defunding the police. We’re not for attacking businesses. We’re for jobs, we’re for growth,” Adams was also added.

The mayor of NYC was criticized during a Wednesday MSNBC interview “woke” People who are involved in driving out minority voters.

“There’s a hemorrhaging of our Latino community, our [Asian American and Pacific Islander] communities, that’s leaving the traditional Democratic base, because we’ve allowed the loudest and those who consider themselves to be ‘woke,'” Adams explained.

“Some of us never went to sleep, and we hear and speak directly to people, and I think the party is now understanding that we have to speak at those issues that are important: Jobs, public safety, educating our children, good health care, just these common kitchen-table issues that we run away from,” He continued.

Adams applauded President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. “woke” rhetoric and returning his attention to “working people.”

“This president’s focus on working people is exactly what the nation needs, and his focus on helping Americans care for their children, provide for their families, and put money in their wallets will resonate from coast to coast,” Adams said. “The agenda he laid out goes hand in hand with what we are doing in New York City — this is a blue-collar president, I’m a blue-collar mayor, and we’re both pursuing a blue-collar agenda for working people in New York and across the rest of the nation.”

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