While the Democrats once backed the defund the police movement that Black Lives Matter protested, looted, and rioted for, thanks to the surge in crime, due to no police, the left has now backpedaled. From claiming the surge in crime was due to COVID-19 to suggesting people police themselves, the Democrats are seeing their power in Washington quickly slip through their fingers as the GOP has already gained big wins in Virginia and New Jersey. Now, Democratic Mayor-elect Eric Adams is causing controversy for wanting to bring back the NYPD’s Anti-Crime Unit. 

Upset about bringing back the unit, Black Lives Matter New York co-founder Chivona Newsome blasted Adams, who is a retired NYPD Captain. According to Newsome, “Mayor-elect Adams is a bargain-basement Giuliani knockoff who longs for old New York where Black folks get their heads cracked by law enforcement and women sit quietly in the back of the room.” 

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Not only did Newsome attack Adams for the suggestion, but the BLM chapter met with the mayor on Wednesday. Newsome’s brother and another co-founder, Hawk Newsome, told new outlets there would be harsh repercussions for reinstating the unit. In his words, he said “There will be riots, there will be fire, and there will be bloodshed.” 

Chivona added, “The NYPD’s Anti-Crime Unit is unconstitutional and stomps all over the Fourth Amendment by allowing the police to ride around poor communities hunting Black men while dressed in plainclothes and unmarked vehicles. Mayor-elect Adams’ behavior and rhetoric are hazardous to Black people.”

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Paul DiGiacomo, the President of the NYPD’s Detectives Endowment Association, backed the idea of revamping the unit. “We need to support Mayor-Elect Adams’ plan to restore public safety and get guns off our streets. NYPD will do the job. Loud, threatening rhetoric will not.”

Although knowing he would be taking some heat for the move, Adams released a statement, saying, “As mayor, I will listen to all New Yorkers — especially those who I disagree with — because it is the only way we will move forward,” he said.  “I marched with Black Lives Matter last year and with advocates for police reform for the last four decades — and I also proudly wore a uniform to protect New Yorkers.”