arrow NYPD officers arresting a Black Lives Matter demonstrator this past Monday BRUCE SCHAFF/GOTHAMIST
Mayor Bill de Blasio defended the NYPD s aggressive crackdown on a Black Lives Matter protest earlier in the week, implying without evidence that the marchers might mount an attack similar to the pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. After what happened at the Capitol, a group approaching City Hall, there was particular sensitivity, de Blasio said. No one anywhere in this country wants to see a repeat of what happened at the Capitol from, you know, anybody of any ideology. So that did cause some special conditions.