Hawk Newsome, the co-founder of the New York-based BLM group, announced during an interview Thursday evening on Fox’s America’s Newsroom that Adams has been “ineffective” at keeping the city safe. Adams, who met threats of violence from Newsome last November for his planned crackdown on violence, was described as a “Conservative-minded White man.”
“Don’t listen to what Eric Adams says. He gives great press statements. He’s the master of the press conference,” Newsome announced. “Some kid dies, [and] he hugs their mother. He’s holding up sneakers. He’s crying.”
Adams was elected mayor to “keep the city safe,” Newsome claimed, continuing that it has become a war zone despite having “billions of dollars in budget and 40,000 police officers” on the payroll.
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Newsome denounced a recent interview in which Adams replied to a question about raised policing in reaction to recent shootings by pointing the finger at the movement and questioning, “What about BLM?”
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“Well, I’ll tell you what we’re going to do. We’re going to organize people in our communities to go out and preach a message of love and unification in the streets,” Newsome announced. “We’re going to take control of our cities because the government has failed us for decades.”
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Host Bill Hemmer asked whether the defund-the-police movement has “actually hurt the African American community” amid a rising Black homicide rate, to which Newsome claimed that it has not, clarifying that the movement shifts funding from police departments into areas that would expand job opportunities or help the community.
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Adams, a former police captain who ran on a pledge to keep the city safe and bring back the plainclothes unit, was sworn into office on January 1.
“He is hopeful that more New Yorkers will stand up and show their outrage when innocent black and brown individuals, many of whom are children, are victims to gun violence,” Fabien Levy, the press secretary for Adams, explained to Fox News. “He will remain focused on ending gun violence across the city and will not respond to personal attacks that simply seek to divide us.”
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Adams declared he would not be deterred by the leader of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, an organization that falls outside the hierarchy of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, indicating there would be “bloodshed" if the mayor-elect followed through with his vow to reinstate the plainclothes unit.