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NYC Mayor Adams faults social media in aftermath of subway shooting for ‘watching hate brew online’

April 18, 2022 | | Print Article

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During an appearance on a Sunday TV talk show, New York City Mayor Eric Adams implied that social media bears some responsibility for violent incidents such as the mass shooting at the Brooklyn subway station.

He also suggested that the “well-intended” progressive left shares some of the blame.

Adams’ remarks were prompted when ABC “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos noted that the subway suspect allegedly had a history of making racially charged YouTube videos and thus was “hiding in plain sight” before the attack.

“Do we need a better way to track individuals like this before they take this violent action? And whose responsibility is it?” the ex-Bill Clinton White House operative asked in the clip embedded above.

“I believe social media must step up. There’s a corporate responsibility when we are watching hate brew online. We can identify using artificial intelligence and other methods to identify those who are talking about violence, and you know my concerns around even what’s called drill music. Not all drill music, but those that talk about inflicting violence on rival gangs. That is driving some of the shootings we’re seeing in parts of the Bronx,” the mayor replied.

According to the New York Post, “Drill rappers are surging in popularity partly due to their flashy videos, which depict young thugs who wield handguns, splash around money and smoke blunts — and have no problem blasting their rivals.”

Adams, 61, a former NYPD captain who ran for office in part on a law-and-order platform, was a lock to win the general election in November 2021 after his first-place finish in the July Democrat primary.

(Video: ABC News)

The crime crackdown is not going so well so far.

“Crime in New York City is up 44.26 percent from this time last year and 27 percent from this time in 2020. Similarly, shooting victims have risen by 9.3 percent from April 2021 and 70.4 percent from April 2020,” the Daily Mail reported.

Among other things, Adams has promised to put more cops on the street and in the subways. He has also vowed to bring back the NYPD plainclothes unit that was disbanded by his predecessor, the far-left Bill de Blasio, in a revamped form.

Shortly after he was sworn in, Adams — who travels with NYPD bodyguards — admitted that even he gets scared while riding New York City’s often disorderly transit system.

Adams’ goal is being hampered by New York’s catch-and-release, so-called bail reform law that puts violent recidivist felons back on the street before the ink is even dry on their paperwork, as well as a George Soros-backed Manhattan district attorney who seems not particularly enthusiastic about prosecuting criminals.

Apparently, with regard to the former, Stephanopoulos played a soundbite from Bill Bratton, the former police commissioner, who said that “the scales right now are tipped very heavily in favor of the reforms of the progressive left. Well-intended, some needed, but a bit too far, and what we have as a result is this growing fear of crime, this growing actual amount of crime, as evidenced in almost every major American city.”

Adams acknowledged that Bratton’s analysis was correct.

“[Bratton] understood what we had to go through during the mid-80s and early 90s when we had to transform policing. Major mistakes made throughout the years that destroyed the trust that the police commissioner is talking about. We have to rebuild that trust. But we can’t rebuild that trust by allowing those who are dangerous and that have a repeated history of violence to continue to be on our streets,” Adams, the former borough president of Brooklyn, asserted.

“We have to unbottleneck the courts. Too many people during COVID when courts closed down have not served their time or have not been in the courtroom. And then we have to be honest about some of the things we’re doing generationally that [have] created the crime problem that we are facing right now. That’s why we believe in intervention and prevention to solve this issue that we’re facing,” he concluded.

Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell, who was also on the panel, agreed with her boss.

“We cannot lose sight of the victims of crime. We believe the system has to be fair and balanced, but when we lose sight of the victims of crime, we are not doing what public safety is intended to do,” she said.

Sounding like a typical partisan Democrat, however, Adams claimed that crime is a national, rather than a red-state, blue-state, issue, and praised President Joe Biden for doing “an amazing job.”

He also accused lawmakers who voted against the massive spending spree known as the Build Back Better legislation of, in effect, defunding the police and lamented “the pipeline” of guns flowing into cities.

Parenthetically, on a recent broadcast, Fox News host Tucker Carlson insinuated the Democrats would rather go after guns than gun felons.

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14 thoughts on “NYC Mayor Adams faults social media in aftermath of subway shooting for ‘watching hate brew online’”

  1. Mayor Adams, you need to take the blame and turn in your letter of resignation. Do NYC the responsible thing they deserve. You made promises and delivered nothing the NYC didn’t already have. In fact it’s gotten worse. The last Mayor that did anything good for NYC was Rudy Giuliano 1994 to 2001. He was tough on crime. With action, not words. Just saying

  2. Blame unsocial social media all day and all night, is fine with me. Can’t blame conservatives, as social media doesn’t allow us to comment or talk with each other.

  3. Blacks commit 85% of the crimes in the US
    National crime problem is mostly in the demoncreep ran states
    Eric Adams is a dorkball and NYC should have not elected a racist.
    Eric Adams is responsible, there’ no police on the subways thanks to Eric Adams

  4. What RACE, is committing most of the Crimes? Whites>>who are a Majority? Hispanics? Asians maybe? Hmm…Let us “pretend, that the GUNS, especially GHOST GUNS are the problem. Attackers in the Subways/Streets/Fast Food Restaurants, are mostly?>>>BLACKS. Adams BLAMES the Crimes on “UNEQUALITY”?! The same ol’ SHARPTON/WATERS Race Cards…When you hear of someone ..a child.. getting murdered by a stray bullet, someone pushed onto Subway Tracks, Asians/Whites assaulted/killed, the “news” never reports on the RACE. Why? Hmmm…Same Crimes committed in other predominately BLACK areas.. . Philadelphia/Chicago/Detroit.. No one is fooled by NOT reporting the RACE of the Criminal. Criminals, going after a Policeman’ Gun/Taser.. on and on mostly are ? STATISTICS DON’T LIE. It is NOT, these “GHOST GUNS,”, but the “GHOST RACE”. Stop PRETENDING and LYING, making the “GHOST GUNS” and INEQUALITY the FAKE problem.

    1. ALL dem politicians are run by the same money machine – controlled by SanFraNan, the hater incarnate.

  6. If this CORRUPT POS would DO his focking job, NYC wouldn’t HAVE a problem with crime !! Better still just get rid of this USELESS HACK !

  7. Hey new yorkers. Democrats have nothing to offer but more and worse problems, lack the savvy to fix them, and refuse any input from others. Keep electing them and it’ll be like de blasio never even left.

  8. The progressive loving media and the law enforcement agency in NYC are equally responsible for the violent criminal activity in the city. The mayor, DA are more interested in staying on the good side of the progressives and keep the money flowing.
    The real blame goes to the citizens of the city, they voted these types of scumbag politicians into office and don’t have the will or the guts to remove them. Anyone outside of the city should not feel sorry for them they got wh at they wanted.

  9. Corporate Media? They are the issue. The FBI had this man in their sight and then dropped him.

  10. $3 dollar bill Mayor Adams (Ah kin dress like a pimp and hangout at da ‘in spots’ wit mah mussulman felon buttbuddy and brag about kickin’ cracker azz if Ah wonts to!) is a lying hypocrite. He sucks up to the far left media and brags about what he be gwine ta do while murders and other violent crimes (almost 100% committed by his black peeps) have gotten worse even than under self-loathing white sub/cuck Di Blasio and his $millions stealing black lesbian dominatrix wife.

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