After another day of unrest on the streets of New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday morning tapped two City Hall insiders to lead a review of the New York Police Department’s conduct durin…
New York City had several hot spots on Saturday night and several police vehicles were vandalized. But to date the city has largely avoided the looting that has rocked Minneapolis and other cities during the past few nights since Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on May 25. Floyd, an unarmed black man, died after being held down on the street with a knee pressed against his neck for more than eight minutes. The officer, Derek Chauvin, has since been charged with manslaughter and fired from the force.
De Blasio emphasized that the city believes some of the violence was instigated deliberately by organized protest movements though he did not cite any specific groups. He said he’d been on the phone with other big city mayors to discuss the issue. “It’s so obvious what’s happening here,” de Blasio said. He cited growing evidence of a “violent organized effort” by people who “in many times were not from the neighborhoods it was occurring in or not even from the same city.”
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