NYC’s Eric Adams Brutally Grilled on The Breakfast Club, Accused of ‘Fear-Mongering’ Over Crime in the City
New York lawyer and activist Olayemi Olurin grilled Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Friday morning’s episode of the Breakfast Club and pressed him hard on his “fear-mongering” about crime in the city.
“Give me the quotes on my rhetoric because I’m lost on that. Can you give me the quotes,” Adams demanded of Olurin after she accused him of spreading fear about crime.
“That you fearmonger about the subways?” Olurin hit back as Adams again asked for the quotes.
“Oh, you’ve consistently done that since day one of your administration. One of the first things you did was add 1000 offices to the subway, because you claimed that the subways are unrideable. You and Hochul did this and said how dangerous it is. And you recently did that when you deployed the National Guard.”
“But that’s not that wasn’t my question. My question was, what was my fear-mongering? What did I say?” Adams hit back.
Olurin doubled down, saying, “You continuously say, I could point to a number of videos and quotes and everything from you, but you’ve said repeatedly that the subways are dangerous, that New York is dangerous. You complain about crime relentlessly. So what I’m saying to you is, if you are saying that New York is the safest city, it’s one of the safest big cities in this country, which is true. And you’re recognizing that the subway stations are, in fact, not half as dangerous as they’re presented to be. I’m saying, how do you reconcile how your rhetoric has played into people’s fear?”
“And not even just rhetoric? I would say the actions, because she’s right,” added host Charlamagne tha God as Adams protested.
“If you put a thousand police officers in the subway twice that in the subway, that don’t make us feel safe, we think something’s wrong if you do that,” Charlamagne continued.
“Let me, let me first let me peel back again, because you got to always peel back this stuff, you know, because of oftentimes how you depict in the media that I don’t control is how people interpret you. I didn’t put the National Guards in the subway. The governor did,” a flustered Adams replied.
“I know, but I know what you said,” Olurin answered.
“You stood with Governor Kathy Hochul and you cosigned that decision. You did. And I’m not saying this as someone who’s following social media. I’m saying that as an attorney in the city and an activist who follows everything that you do,” she added.
Adams hit back, “Yeah. If you I’m glad you do. But then you realize how I turned the city around. If you follow everything I do, you realize that…”
Olurin cut in, “I would say no, but we could get to that next.”
Charlamagne jumped in to cut the tension with a joke, saying, “Loosen up your time, Mayor Adams, its’ gonna be a long day.”
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