Bill Blasio actually said...

""The charges... were flimsy,""

""The mayor has an opportunity to prove that notion false. He can put this to rest with his actions," de Blasio said."

"But we should not fall into that trap of stereotyping this whole city of hard-working good people who actually over years and years made this the safest big city in America."

"There is a horrible tendency. When something goes wrong for people in certain quarters, when maybe it’s commentators, maybe it’s politicians, to suggest that we’ve gone back to the 1970s, when it’s an..."