A Warning for Eric Adams and Keechant Sewell: Stand Firm If ‘the Old Guard’ of the NYPD Comes for You!
From The G-Man urges Mayor-elect Adams and incoming NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell to carefully read or re-read the following article.
Moreover, they are advised to keep in mind that they, like the late Mayor David Dinkins, could also be subjected to personal or racist attacks by certain factions within the NYPD and PBA if they oppose “the old guard,” the culture, and the old system of policing. This will likely be the case if Adams and Sewell fully intend to hold high ranking officials and officers accountable like never before.
From The G-Man cites the following excerpts from the aforementioned article to illustrate the point.
“Norm Steisel, then first deputy mayor of operations, heard officers chanting, ‘Dinkins gotta go!’ and ‘The mayor’s on crack.’ They carried signs bearing racist cartoon images of Mayor David Dinkins with humongous lips and nose and an Afro, including several calling the city’s first Black mayor a ‘washroom attendant.’”
“Some of the city’s newspaper columnists, including Jimmy Breslin, the poet laureate of the city’s blue-collar working class, were repulsed. According to a column he wrote the next day, Breslin saw an officer in a PBA shirt saying to a female television reporter, ‘Here, let me grab your ass.’ He saw one officer yelling ‘across the beer can held to his mouth, ‘How did you like the n – – – – -s beating you up in Crown Heights?’” Another said, ‘Now you got a n – – – – – right inside City Hall. How do you like that? A n – – – – – mayor.’”
The City Hall riot took place nearly 30 years ago, and many of the officers who carried racist signs, or publicly called Mayor Dinkins a nigger, had children…..who may be New York City police officers. Something to think about.