New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says a security breach involving the changing of flags at the Brooklyn Bridge last week is “a wake-up call.”
De Blasio said Monday police have increased security on all the city’s bridges.
Police believe four or five people climbed the bridge’s two towers on July 22 and replaced the giant American flags with white ones.
The operation involved disabling a pair of spotlights and appears carefully planned. The culprits remain at large, and their motives are unknown.
De Blasio was in Italy during the security failure at one of the city’s most famous landmarks. He says in his first comments about it he’s “absolutely concerned.”
Some people fear a group with more sinister motives could penetrate the bridge’s security.
(AP)
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Yup, at least as worrisome as tunnels under the ground with terrorists free and able to….
And nearly as troublesome as horses on the city’s streets!
Mr. Mayor, we have some serious crises in this town!
Going thru a red light or going above 30 miles an hour will get you a ticket in the mail, but to climb the Freedom tower or scale the Brooklyn Bridge, nobody knows nothing! Way to go NYPD! Don’t work to hard now! Make sure you collect that pension at the taxpayers expense.
Dinkins, DeBlasio, it’s all the same. Better relations (read ticket the licensed drivers, but let the terrorists, stunt artists, revolutionaries, stop-and-frisk don’t wan-a-bes), run wild.
Crime went down in both Giuliani’s and Bloomberg’s administration precisely because they focused on high-crime areas. But now, no. That would be profiling.