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Chirlane and I have had to talk to Dante for years about the dangers he may face. He’s a good young man, law abiding young man who never would think to do anything wrong. And yet because of a history that still hangs over us, the dangers he may face, we’ve had to literally train him, as families have all over this city for decades, in how to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers—who are there to protect him. … For so many of our young people there’s a fear and for so many of our families there’s a fear. So I’ve had to worry over the years. Chirlane’s had to worry, “Is Dante safe?” each night. There’re so many families in the city who feel that each and every night: “Is my child safe?” And not just from the painful realities of crime and violence in some of our neighborhoods but, are they safe from the very people they want to have faith in as their protectors. That’s reality. …
You’ve heard in so many places, people of all backgrounds utter the same basic phrase. They’ve said, black lives matter. And they said it because it had to be said. It’s a phrase…that should be self-evident. But our history sadly requires us to say, black lives matter.
New York City Mayor Says, #BlackLivesMatter - COLORLINES
I remember watching this, and thinking, 'he just threw the cops under the bus', and sure enough, by the next day, the copy felt they had been throw under the bus as well.
So saying that his son being a black male being stopped more often than white males (which is true, statistic prove this), and recognizing that racism still exists in our society (which is true), and he even praises the NYPD, and somehow this means "GO KILL COPS!"? Seriously? If speaking of the factual realities of our country is "throwing the cops under the bus", maybe we have a problem of some members of society facing the reality of events in this country and less of a basic partisan problem....
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