Adams Lashes Out at City Council’s Progressive Caucus for Pushing to Defund the Police

Edited by: TJVNews.com

It seems like New York City Mayor Eric Adams is on the defensive as of late. According to a recently published report in the New York Post, Hizzoner lashed out for a second day on Thursday against far-left fellow Democrats. This time around, Mayor Adams lambasted the “Progressive Caucus” in the New York City Council over its latest strategy to defund the police.

Last week, the Post presented an exclusive story about the push in the dominant progressive caucus in the city council towards “reducing the size and scope of the NYPD.” The Post reported that Adams said the group was “calling for removing members of their own caucus if they don’t sign a pledge to defund the police.”

The mayor was interviewed on CNN about this matter and said, “That is not who we are as Democrats. And I’m going to continue to stand and state that we’re pro-public safety and we’re pro-proper policing.”

Adams add that a “numerical minority” of national Democrats “have hijacked the term progressive.”

“I have been progressive all my life,” Adams said during the CNN interview. “Look at the issues I fought for, from police reform, housing, education. But we’ve allowed a small number that are the loudest, and they’ve hijacked the true meaning of the Democratic Party. We’re not for defunding the police. We’re not for attacking businesses. We’re for jobs, we’re for growth, “ he said, as was reported by the Post.

The Post reported that on Wednesday, Adams blamed “those who consider themselves to be ‘woke’” for sowing division among Democrats. On Thursday, the mayor criticized the “small number on the fringe ends of our party.”

“Some of us never went to sleep and we hear and speak directly to people,” Adams said Wednesday, according to the Post report. “And I think the party is now understanding that we have to speak at those issues that are important: Jobs, public safety, educating our children, good health care — just these common, kitchen-table issues that we move away from,” Adams added