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Home Front: Politix
de Blasio: Rudy Giuliani fundamentally misunderstands reality
2014-12-08
[ABC News] Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani “fundamentally misunderstands the reality,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said today on “This Week” in response to Giuliani’s recent comments focusing on violence within African-American communities, rather than questions over police interactions with minorities that have sparked nationwide protests.

“I think he fundamentally misunderstands the reality,” de Blasio told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos in his first television interview since a New York grand jury decided this week not to indict police officers in the July death of Eric Garner in Staten Island. “We’re trying to bring police and community together. There is a problem here, there is a rift here that has to be overcome.”

“You cannot look at the incident in Missouri, another incident in Cleveland, Ohio, and another incident in New York City, all happening in the space of weeks and act like there’s not a problem,” de Blasio added.
You could have solved the problem by asking your prosecutors to indict your police officer for negligent homicide, which the video (IMO) suggests he did. But you didn't do that, Mr. Mayor. Why not?
De Blasio was responding to comments made by Giuliani on Fox News last Sunday in which he said, “I think just as much, if not more, responsibility is on the black community to reduce the reason why the police officers are assigned in such large numbers to the black community. It’s because blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society.”

Giuliani, who had strained relations with many black New Yorkers during his tenure as mayor from 1994 to 2001, later said in separate comments that de Blasio’s response to the Garner case this week contributed to tearing down respect for the criminal justice system.
Posted by:Fred

#7  “You cannot look at the incident in Missouri, another incident in Cleveland, Ohio, and another incident in New York City, all happening in the space of weeks and act like there’s not a problem,” de Blasio added.

Someone needs to give de Blasio a good beating with the 'Correlation is not Causation' stick.

You know everyone involved in those incidents also were breathing the dreaded element oxygen at the time (also a leading contributor to Fires!). I say we ban the breathing of Oxygen - starting with De Blasio. Then moving on to Sharpton, Jackson, Holder, etc...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-12-08 12:07  

#6  We have to retrain police forces in how to work with communities differently.

Just let Mayor de Blasio’s throw away comment sink in for a moment. Now ask yourself; what is he really advocating? Here’s a hint. It ain’t equal justice.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2014-12-08 12:01  

#5  What we have here is a fundamental disagreement on what reality is, and what the definition of the word "is", is.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2014-12-08 10:43  

#4  De Blasio misunderestimates reality, as we shall see.
Posted by: KBK   2014-12-08 10:09  

#3  de Blasio has been in office a very short time and he feels he can make this claim? So far, de Blasio's term in office is not off to a good start. When you have as successful a stint in office as Giuliani had, you can open your pie hole. Give me a break.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-12-08 08:52  

#2  I posit that once again the Left demonstrates two alternate universes intersect on this planet. Or it could just be a fractal time shift with each party living in alternate time lines.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-12-08 08:32  

#1  “You cannot look at the incident in Missouri, another incident in Cleveland, Ohio, and another incident in New York City, all happening in the space of weeks and act like there’s not a problem,”
Funny, I was thinking about those very same incidents this morning and speculating on an entirely different 'problem' - that they are typical, tragic/unfortunate incidents that have happened all the time but THIS TIME they are a newsworthy cause. I feel like there's a force - a conspiracy - MAKING it an issue this time. Why? Qui bono? The race pimps for sure, but has to be something more than that. A 'pay no attention to that man behind the curtain' moment?
Posted by: Glenmore   2014-12-08 08:17  

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