jury, addressing the city before a microphone, talking about his own son dante and having to warn him about his interactions with the police. a lot of people in new york felt the mayor was hearing them at that moment. there were some very harsh and negative reactions today to those statements from the mayor from the head of the patrolmen s benevolent association. patrick lynch the head of the police union firing back at the mayor he says threw them under the bus. what police officers felt yesterday after that press conference is that they were thrown under the bus. that they were out there doing a difficult job in the middle of the night protecting the rights of those to protest, protecting our sons and daughters, and the mayor was behind microphones like this throwing them under the bus. today a lot of continued head scratching and hard questions about just how the grand jury in staten island reached the decision it reached. unlike the case in ferguson in which bob mcculloch relea
from the head of the patrolmen s benevolent association. patrick lynch the head of the police union firing back at the mayor he says threw them under the bus. what police officers felt yesterday after that press conference is that they were thrown under the bus. that they were out there doing a difficult job in the middle of the night protecting the rights of those to protest, protecting our sons and daughters, and the mayor was behind microphones like this throwing them under the bus. today a lot of continued head scratching and hard questions about just how the grand jury in staten island reached the decision it reached. unlike the case in ferguson in which bob mcculloch released the totality of the grand jury record to the public, something we ve been sifting through now for over a week, staten island district attorney dan donovan has declined to file to do the same to staten island. a judge today issuing a very cursory summary of the findings there. we know there were 50 witnes
the mayor was hearing them at that moment. there were some very harsh and negative reactions today to those statements from the mayor from the head of the patrolmen s benevolent association. patrick lynch the head of the police union firing back at the mayor he says threw them under the bus. what police officers felt yesterday after that press conference is that they were thrown under the bus. that they were out there doing a difficult job in the middle of the night protecting the rights of those to protest, protecting our sons and daughters, and the mayor was behind microphones like this throwing them under the bus. today a lot of continued head scratching and hard questions about just how the grand jury in staten island reached the decision it reached. unlike the case in ferguson in which bob mcculloch released the totality of the grand jury record to the public, something we ve been sifting through now for over a week, staten island district attorney dan donovan has declined to
when we talk about what s happening with eric garner or michael brown or tamir rice in cleveland, there s a sense in which people talk about black lives matter and they talk about police and they talk about the kind of gap that opens up between communities of color in particular and police. but there are of course many people who live in both of those worlds. my next guest is one of them. eric adams is the borough president of brooklyn but he spent 22 years as an nypd officer, as a captain in fact. was the founding member of 100 black law enforcement officers who care. an organization of black law enforcement officers. you then went on to be a state legislator. you re now brooklyn borough president. that sound from the head of the patrolmen s benevolent association, that the mayor threw them under the bus, what s your reaction to that? i don t think that s true. the pba, pat lynn chrks he s going to protect his members. the mayor has to protect all the people of the city of new yor