Mayor de Blasio: I’m ‘proud’ of daughter who was arrested during George Floyd protests
By Shant Shahrigian
New York Daily News
June 1, 2020
Mayor de Blasio said Monday he is “proud” of his daughter Chiara de Blasio after she was arrested Saturday during heated protests in Manhattan.
“I am proud of her that she cares so much and is willing to do something about it,” Hizzoner said at a press conference.
Asked whether he thinks she did anything wrong, he said no, adding she
had nothing to do with any violence. He said he only found out about her
arrest when his staff received a media inquiry on Sunday.
“She was peacefully protesting, not doing anything that would provoke a negative response,” the mayor said.
He added that his daughter, 25, did not inform him and the city’s first
lady Chirlane McCray “of her intention to get arrested” in advance.
The arrest was one of hundreds over the weekend. The mayor has staunchly defended the NYPD in spite of widespread accounts of aggressive conduct by officers.
“I admire that she was out there trying to change something that she
thought was unjust and trying to do it in a peaceful manner,” de Blasio
said.
He blamed news of his daughter’s arrest on a leak from police union sources, calling the move “inappropriate.”
EDITOR'S NOTE; If she did nothing wrong, then why was she arrested? And shame on whoever - de Blasio thinks it was the police union - leaked the news of her arrest to the media.
EDITOR'S NOTE; If she did nothing wrong, then why was she arrested? And shame on whoever - de Blasio thinks it was the police union - leaked the news of her arrest to the media.
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