New York BlackLivesMatter co-founder Hawk Newsome vows that they’ll be “riots,” “fire” and “bloodshed” if NYC Mayor-elect Eric Adams brings back NYPD’s anti-crime units.
Those crime units where disbanded during the summer of 2020 in response to the George Floyd riots by Mayor de Blasio as he like many other Democrats jumped on the defund, dismantle & vilify police bandwagon.
That resulted in a massive spike in violent crime.
New York Democrat Mayor elect Eric Adams ran and was elected on a large “law & order” platform. He’s also a retired NYPD officer.
Adams has vowed to restore NYPD’s anti-crime unit that is made up of plainclothes officers who deal with firearms busts as well as seek to crackdown on violent crime.
This week he met with BLM activists after they march in front of his office.
Fox5 New York reports that Newsome said after his meeting with Adams (emphasis added):
"If they think they are going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are going to take to the streets again. There will be riots. There will be fire and there will be bloodshed. There's no way we're going to let some Gestapos come in here and harm our people. We pray for peace, but Black opportunities prepare for the worst."
Adams responded to the threats saying, "that's silly. That's silly. I think New Yorkers should not allow rhetoric like that. This city is not going to be a city of riots."
One unnamed NYPD supervisor tells the New York Post, “The FBI should investigate him as a domestic terrorist and look into where he is getting his money. The people funding him should also be investigated.”
"John Jay College of Criminal Justice Professor Michael Alcazar said the plainclothes units are essential because the criminals do not know who they are.
"We have to keep the bad guys guessing if there's plainclothes officers out there watching them," said Alcazar, a retired NYPD detective.
The Detectives Endowment Association, the union that represents detectives, blasted the threats from the local BLM group.
"We need to support Mayor-Elect Adams' plan to restore public safety and get guns off our streets. NYPD will do the job," union president Paul DiGiacomo said in a statement to FOX 5 News. "Loud threatening rhetoric will not."