“I’m going to continue to stand and state that we’re pro-public safety and we’re pro-proper policing,” the mayor said, rebuking City Council’s “Progressive…
for a second day on Thursday — by blasting the City Council’s dominant “Progressive Caucus” over its latest strategy to defund the police.reduce the size and scope of the NYPD
,” Adams said the group was “calling for removing members of their own caucus if they don’t sign a pledge to defund the police.” “That is not who we are as Democrats,” Adams said on CNN. “And I’m going to continue to stand and state that we’re pro-public safety and we’re pro-proper policing.” Adams also said that a “numerical minority” of national Democrats “have hijacked the term progressive.”
“I have been progressive all my life,” Adams said. “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.
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