New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
By Leonard Levitt
“Mr. Mayor, Why No Outrage Over a Mother’s Brutal Arrest?”
That was the Dec. 10 online headline from The New York Times
editorial board, which criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio’s initial
non-response to the charge that police “ripped a 1-year-old boy from
his mother’s arms,” as the newspaper’s news story described the
incident.
Granted, this is the same editorial board that in 2015 called
for firing NYPD Officer James Frascatore, who is white, after he
tackled biracial tennis star James Blake as he stood outside a midtown
hotel, mistaking him for a suspect wanted in a credit card fraud ring.
That editorial compared Frascatore to Daniel Pantaleo, who may or may
not have used a chokehold that led to the death of Eric Garner, a death
that fanned the anti-police narrative that police regularly mistreat
and even kill innocent African Americans. [Jazmine Headley, the mother
of the 1 year old, “ripped” from her arms, is black.]
Yet when it comes to de Blasio’s initial lack of outrage over
Headley’s arrest, the Times’ editorial board got it right, at least in
part. “Mr. de Blasio’s handling of the incident shows how far he has
strayed from his righteous roots as a candidate promising to hold the
police accountable and change the way they interact with minority
residents like Ms. Headley,” the Times stated.
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Source: nypdconfidential.com
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