NYPD Confidential: Why No Outrage?

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