On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s” The Story”, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry stated that the Columbia demonstrators “are kids” and” we are handling them with kid gloves, as you will say”, because they do n’t want things to turn into a situation like in 2020, but “if they try to pull this rhetoric on the street or setting up encampments” that wo n’t happen.
[ Recent exchange begins around 5:15 ] Host Trace Gallagher said, “[I] t’s kind of one of those things where you have to walk a very fine line, because we remember back to the Black Lives Matter protests and the arrests that were made and then the lawsuits that were filed against the New York Police Department and the millions of dollars that NYPD had to pay out, and that’s why it seems like police officers are reticent to shut things down now like they were
Daughtry responded,” You’re a thousand percent right. But we’ve got to take into consideration also, these are learners, these are kids. And this is the proof that what we saw with George Floyd was radically different from what we are seeing today. We do n’t want it to get like how it]was ] with George Floyd, that’s why we are handling them with kid gloves, as you will say, but like Chief Chell says, if they try to pull this rhetoric on the street or setting up encampments, that is not going to happen, not as long as we are in a leadership position here in this city”.
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