New York City residents will not easily forgive Mayor Bill de Blasio for his response to the violence and looting that turned the city's streets into a "war zone" following the death of George Floyd, former New York Police and Fire Commissioner Howard Safir told Fox News on Sunday. De Blasio "was very slow for the first curfew, and if you look up Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue, his legacy is making New York look like a ghost town or a war zone," Safir told Jon Scott on "Fox Report." "For the first four or five days, he basically told NYPD to let the demonstrators vent, and we saw the result of that. Safir blamed de Blasio for the unrest, arguing that he was limiting officers' ability to do their jobs properly. Asked later to react to growing calls to "defund the police," Safir pointedly responded, "I think it's a terrible idea."

Source: Fox News June 08, 2020 01:07 UTC