Watch the video below of an exchange between Veteran Hamodia reporter Reuvain Borchardt and Socalist NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio.
This took place at Friday’s press conference:
RB: A couple of days ago, several of your police officers were attacked, including your Chief of Department. For the first 24 hours, you did not issue a public statement or a tweet. It was only 24 hours after the attack when a reporter asked you about it, that you condemned the attack. During that time, you found time to make 11 tweets about police reform. So why did you not respond within 24 hours publicly, and how should that be interpreted by all New Yorkers, from cops to criminals?
Mayor: Reuvain, look, again, your questions always have a particular bias to them – God bless you, but let’s be clear about the facts. Over the weekend we saw something like this and I condemned it. We don’t accept any attacks on police officers. I’ve said it so many times and I mean it, and I want everyone to understand that – it’s just literally unacceptable in a free society: You cannot attack the people who serve and protect us. I’ve said it many, many times in many circumstances, if you’d like a long list, we’ll get you one, Reuvain. Sometimes, I’ll be the first to say, we should overemphasize that message. I’m perfectly comfortable saying we should have, again, I work with a big team here – we were doing a lot of different things – we should have put that message out sooner. But anyone who’s been listening knows I say it constantly, and I want to get to the day where I don’t have to say it because people respect our police officers and don’t ever even think of attacking them. And what I’m trying to build is a city where there’s mutual respect between police and community, so that we change the environment for the better. I have seen real progress with neighborhood policing. I’m not going to let anything about this multiple crisis of the coronavirus – the worst healthcare crisis in this century, the worst economic crisis in 90 years, a social justice crisis, a disparity crisis, an employment crisis, a fiscal crisis. This is all happening simultaneously. It’s never happened before in the city’s history. I’m not going to let that make it impossible for me to see that for six full years, we implemented neighborhood policing and moved this city forward, and we will continue that work and resume that work no matter what, and that’s the way forward.
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14 Responses
Debozo has gone totally bonkers
His questions have no bias they merely point out the part time mayors personal biases to police
Hamodia does have a bias, a left leaning bias
Kudos to Reuvain from Hamodia!
Reuven, Gd bless you because YOU HIT HIM RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES WHERE IT HURTS!
How dare he? Of course suggesting anything critical of the mayor is biased… (Not! But sure proves the mayor’s trite colors…)
The only thing Deblasio cares about is “BLM” and painting the streets of New York.
Maybe he should quit and become a house painter, in Iran.
And painting a mural outside trump tower also has bias. Liberals are easy to dole out their hate but can’t take the heat when someone questions them.
this filthy TRAITOROUS America hating communist swine,needs to be treated like you would a deranged rabies infected sewer rat,because that is exactly what he is and a thousand times more dangerous.
In normal times treasonous rats like him would be hanging from the gallows or rotting behind bars instead of residing in gracie mansion making believe he is the mayor
The guy is TOTALLY MESHUGA, there is no point in have a dialogue with him.
Not a bad idea to pester the mayor with questions that point to his persistent hypocrisy and his corrupt approach to dealing with NYC residents.
Perhaps a better idea would be to organize the journalists, and boycott the mayor’s press conferences. After all, of what value is it to hear him never accept responsibility and lie about everything?
Do the other media represented at conferences not ask questions that reflect bias?
“Socialist” mayor. You say it like you think it’s a bad thing. Remember, that without government programs, a sizable portion of the less modern segments of the Yeshiva world would be homeless and hungry, and their schools would go out of business.
DiBlithering Idiot should look in a mirror before he says someone else is biased.
Markjw: Think twice before you sacrifice your freedoms in exchange for some freebees from the government, and never forget that those freebees always come with many strings attached.