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The sudden, unceremonious resignation of Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell has caused a shift of seismic proportions throughout the NYPD and City Hall.
During an unrelated event at One Police Plaza on Tuesday, top police brass gave Sewell — who will remain on the job through June 30 — a standing ovation for several minutes, prompting her to beg for the uniforms to take their seats.
She didn’t address her resignation during Tuesday’s event, which celebrated the participants in the Police Athletic League’s “Police Commissioner for a Day” essay contest. According to several high-ranking police officials, Sewell is well-liked and admired behind the scenes, with some citing several undisclosed disagreements with Mayor Adams dating back to early in her tenure as reasons for the sudden resignation.During a separate unrelated press conference on Tuesday, the mayor said Sewell was one of his “proudest appointments.” “I have confidence in the commissioner today,” the mayor told reporters. “I think that as I stated, it was one of my proudest appointments … As I stated when I was campaigning, I wanted to show the expertise of how women in law enforcement can actually run the largest police department in the country.” He also pushed back on reports that his administration was undermining Sewell’s ability to effectively run the department, charging that reporters were spinning a “narrative” that didn’t come from Sewell herself. “Because it’s reported, you automatically assume it must be fact. I mean that’s problematic for me,” Adams said in response to a reporter’s question about the perception that Sewell left because she was being undermined by the men around her. “There’s a whole lot of things that are reported, especially tweet on Twitter,” he continued. “If the commissioner wants to tell you why she’s leaving, then you should speak to her, she’s not disappearing. But for you to assume that was she’s leaving because of A, B, C and D … because it was reported, come on, let’s stop this. Let’s stop creating the narrative.”
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