Source: Fox News
“Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Police Department top brass condemned ‘outside agitators’ fanning the flames of anti-Israel protests at Columbia and New York University, as police made more arrests. At his usual Tuesday press conference from City Hall, Adams, a Democrat and former police officer, praised the NYPD’s response. ‘We can’t have outside agitators come in and be destructive to our city,’ Adams said. ‘Someone wanted something to happen at that protest at NYU.’ ‘People who peacefully protest for an issue, they’re not throwing bottles and chairs,’ the mayor added. ‘And so we know that we have acknowledged and saw across the country, there are people who come have nothing to do with the issue and they want to aggravate. Now, if those police officers didn’t show a high level of discipline, this could have been an ugly situation.'” (04/23/24)