Bill de Blasio in Promise Me, Dad:, by Joe Biden

On Crime: Condemn killing police in retaliation for police killings

Right before Christmas 2014, two uniformed New York City policemen were executed by a lone gunman while sitting quietly in their patrol car in Brooklyn, just doing their job.

When de Blasio got word of the ambush, the mayor forcefully condemned the killings, and did so without pause, as did President Obama. The president said: "I ask people to reject violence and words that harm, and turn to words that heal--prayer, patient dialogue, and sympathy for the friends and family of the fallen." But things were already getting out of hand. Rudy Giuliani asserted that the president had given license to the gunman, who was found to have announced on social media his intention to hunt and kill police officers to avenge other [civilian African Americans] who had been killed during recent interactions with law enforcement. "We've had 4 months of propaganda, starting with the president, that everybody should hate the police," Giuliani said, a statement both mean-spirited and demonstrably false.

Source: Promise Me, Dad,by Joe Biden, 37-40 Nov 14, 2017

On Crime: Worried about why blacks need to be cautious around police

[In 2014], two weeks of growing demonstrations against police brutality had been sparked by a grand jury's decision not to indict a policeman who had choked to death a forty-three-year-old African American man named Eric Garner--in spite of the fact that the entire incident was preserved on a cell phone video. New York mayor Bill de Blasio had been careful not to criticize the grand jury, but he did make a point of expressing sympathy for the Garner family and for every parent who had to worry about his or her non-white son in any encounter with the cops. The mayor detailed the special precautions he and his wife insisted their mixed-race son observe in his dealings with the police: do everything they tell you to do, don't move suddenly, don't reach for your cell phone. "I've had to worry over the years," the mayor explained. Source: Promise Me, Dad,by Joe Biden, p. 35-37 Nov 14, 2017

The above quotations are from Promise Me, Dad A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose, by Joe Biden. Click here for main summary page. Click here for a profile of Bill de Blasio. Click here for Bill de Blasio on all issues.
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