NYC Mayor DeBlasio blew an opportunity on Sunday morning to explain a glaring double standard that has brought him under attack. DeBlasio fudged his way out of the question convincing even more people of their accusations. As YWN had reported, the morning after Williamsburg’s Levaya incident last week, the NYPD was out in force and wrote nearly 100 summonses to pedestrians for not wearing masks. One each summonse, it was clearly written that the reason for the summose was “Mayor’s executive order”. Yet on Shabbos afternoon, the NYPD was out around the city and not only were they not giving summonses to people not wearing masks, but they were actually giving out masks to those not wearing them. In fact, the main NYPD Twitter account proudly tweeted a photo of an officer giving a woman a mask and wrote “No mask? No problem. This park-goer in Domino Park didn’t have a mask, no problem, our task force officers were more than happy to provide her with one.” No mask? No problem. This park-goer in Domino Park didn't have a mask, no problem, our task force officers were more than happy to provide her with one. pic.twitter.com/qgSo1li2VH — NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) May 2, 2020 Twitter exploded with outrage and criticism against the Mayor from elected officials such as Councilman Chaim Deutsch, Kalman Yeger, Simcha Eichenstein, Simcha Felder, former Assemblyman Dov Hikind and many other community activists. [SEE TWEETS BELOW] At his daily press conference on Sunday morning, the Mayor was asked by Hamodia reporter Reuven Borchardt about this double standard, and instead of addressing it, he just blamed it all on the Levaya incident and ignored the questions about why the NYPD was handing out masks all over the city, but busy writing summonses in Williamsburg: WATCH THE VIDEO AND READ THE TRANSCRIPT BELOW: Question: Hi, how are you? There’s some criticism of you on Twitter over the weekend by elected officials that I’d like you to respond to saying there’s a tale of two cities. On the one hand, you tweeted sharp criticism of a funeral, Williamsburg, and the next day police officers descended on the neighborhood giving out large numbers of summons. I know you mentioned the distinction between gathering versus a bunch of individuals, but those people who got the tickets the next day were just a bunch of individuals out in the street. Yesterday, there were many images of jam-packed parks in the city, people not wearing masks. You had no Twitter comment. Assemblymen Simcha Eichenstein wrote, Hasidism regressively slapped in summons of up to $1,000 for not wearing a mask, a tale of two cities. NYPD tweeted, no mask, no problem – this lady in the park didn’t have a masks, we gave her a mask. Councilman Chaim Deutsche responded, I’m confused, when do you give a mask to when do you give a summons? And so my question is, why – if you can respond to this criticism, the politicians are saying that apparently there’s one neighborhood that’s gets sharp criticism and the community called out by name, while in other instances there’s silence or the polite handing out of masks. Thank you. Mayor: Yeah, Rubin. I just dispute that fundamentally. There has been enforcement for weeks and weeks. And look, I love my city […]
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