Adams, Tisch and New York’s Finest show LA how – Latest News
As Los Angeles suffers riots and the indignity of rescue by President Donald Trump, let’s take a second to understand the NYPD.
When it involves handling unruly protests, ICE raids and stopping violence cold, New York’s Finest stand head and shoulders above their LAPD and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department counterparts.
Of course, Mayor Eric Adams additionally stands in stark distinction to LA’s Karen Bass: Where she all however summoned up the riots final Friday, he this week known as the violence in Los Angeles “unacceptable” and warned it “would not be tolerated if attempted in our city.”
And of course he didn’t have police maintain off for 2 hours when NYC protesters started to push the boundaries.
An NYPD officer arresting an anti-ICE protester in decrease Manhattan on June 10, 2025. Aristide Economopoulos
So New York City received’t need to just accept Trump’s offer of federal help.
Nor will it tolerate a repeat of the mayhem and violence that accompanied the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests in summer time 2020, when the NYPD needed to undergo the “leadership” of hapless Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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The division is “expert in policing protests,” Commissioner Jessica Tisch calmly defined in a weekend call with the feds. “We have lots of practice at it and our cops are the best in the world. It is our responsibility to maintain safety and order on our streets and we will not abdicate that responsibility.”
And let’s be clear on who the would-be rioters are: a pack of faculty college students, veteran agitators and trustafarians.
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Of the 86 people busted during Tuesday’s anti-ICE protests in Lower Manhattan, 34 others earned felony costs, together with:
Rachel Schreiber of Brooklyn — whose dad and mom own a $3 million home in Westhampton Beach — is dealing with resisting arrest, reckless endangerment and tried assault costs within the melee.
Vega Gullette, 19 and a pupil at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, was charged with second-degree assault and disorderly conduct; she’s the daughter of actor, screenwriter and director Sean Gullette.
Robert Mills, charged with reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct, was beforehand charged with obstructing governmental administration at an April anti-Israel protest in Brooklyn.
Peaceful protests are lawful, and absolutely protected on this city, however the agitators seeking to get violent will get shut down, fast.
Kudos to Adams and Tisch for laying down the law — and backing it up with motion.
