Four days after officially taking over as head of the nation’s
largest municipal police department, New York Police Department
Commissioner James O’Neill was sworn in Monday at a ceremony at police
headquarters in Manhattan.
O’Neill — a 30-year police veteran — takes over amid an ongoing probe
into an explosion in Chelsea on Saturday that injured 29 people. A
second explosive device was also found Saturday night nearby the
explosion, and on Sunday night several explosive devices were found near a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Literally as O’Neill was ceremoniously sworn-in, the NYPD’s
counterterrorism unit tweeted that the bombing suspect, Ahmad Khan
Rahami, was captured in Linden, N.J.
Mayor Bill de Blasio noted the timing of O’Neill’s ascent.
“His first full day began Saturday morning,” de Blasio said. By that
night, the mayor said, the public saw “why Jimmy O’Neill was ready to
lead us all. Because he handled the crisis on Saturday evening the way
we knew he would. Calm, cool” and trusted, the mayor said. “That is what
we will see in the years to come.” De Blasio, speaking to O'Neill,
added, “And you showed on your very first day what you were made of.”
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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report)
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