New York City Mayor Eric Adams marked Good Friday by receiving a jailhouse baptism from the Rev. Al Sharpton, joining in on the religious rite with a group of men incarcerated at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex.
In this photo provided by the Office of the Mayor of New York, Mayor Eric Adams, second from right, laying back, participates in a baptism ceremony with Rev. Al Sharpton, right, while visiting the Rikers Island jail complex in New …
“Having been arrested and then elected mayor, I reminded these young men that where you are is not who you are,” Adams, a Democrat, said in a statement. “For the first time in their lives, their mayor didn’t look down at them - I sat side by side with them to be cleansed and recommit ourselves to getting on the right path.”
Adams and the civil rights leader have close ties through their long tenures in New York politics. Adams often calls into Sharpton’s satellite radio show and the pair have appeared together at City Hall events.
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