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Eric Adams

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Eric Adams is the current Mayor of New York City, having taken office on January 1, 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, Adams previously served as the Brooklyn Borough President from 2014 to 2021. He is known for his focus on public safety, economic recovery, and social equity initiatives. Adams has emphasized the importance of community support and has launched various public-private partnerships aimed at assisting vulnerable populations in the city, particularly during challenging times.

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Jul 12, 2021

It`s time to respond to the underlying causes of violence in our city. We need to put in place real plans in New York City to go after the gun violence.

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Jul 11, 2021

My son won't grow up in a city that I grew up in, filled with crime, graffiti and violence. That is unacceptable.

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Jul 11, 2021

People want safe streets, they want our children educated, they want a real issue around housing.

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Jul 11, 2021

We've allowed, I believe the numerical minority of the part of the party, to hijack the entire conversation.

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Jul 11, 2021

When you communicate with people who are closest to the problem, they know when they hear someone that's closest to the solutions.

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Jul 6, 2021

While there are still some very small amounts of votes to be counted, the results are clear. An historic, diverse, five-borough coalition led by working class New Yorkers has led us to victory in the Democratic primary for mayor of New…

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Jul 5, 2021

CNN projects Brooklyn Borough president and former police officer Eric Adams has won, what was a hard fought sometimes tense contest that swung and part of the issue of crime.

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Jun 20, 2021

They're saying that we can't trust a person of color to be the mayor of the City of New York.

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Jun 20, 2021

I'm not going back to the days where our babies were waking up to gunshots and not alarm clocks.

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Jun 20, 2021

I've never had a doubt, not one day, that we were not going to win this.

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Jun 14, 2021

The prerequisite to prosperity is public safety and justice.

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Jun 14, 2021

I have an unbelievable record in this issue.

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Dec 31, 2020

I don’t want or need the support of Tucker Carlson, or anyone else who perpetuates racist, anti-immigrant propaganda.

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May 3, 2015

I want to live in a safe environment. I want to raise my son in a safe environment.

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May 3, 2015

They want to pedophile on court. They want to rob on court. But we are looking at that one officer because many of our police officers come from communities outside the communities, they bombarder with stereotypes on TV on with all black…

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May 3, 2015

We have to be proactive. Officers must stop and afraid of this citizens, the citizens must stop and afraid of their officers. We are in this together.

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May 3, 2015

I think one of the answers is one of the guest you have in the room right now, a great police chief that understands that any time you have -- what we do in America now, my office is stand on corners and wait for something bad to happen…

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May 3, 2015

We cannot expect police officers to sterilize clean environment of a police academy differ from the dirty reality of the streets.

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Jan 25, 2015

I think what the mayor did, and OEM did, by putting the message out early enough... so that people could know early enough so they won't be stranded.

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Jan 25, 2015

The mayor and his team has done an excellent job of really cleaning the streets, just staying ahead of the snow.

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Jan 25, 2015

If you're on the highways, you can receive a $300 summons for that. So they're taking this seriously.

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Jan 25, 2015

The winds are really blowing out there. The roads are hazardous. It is extremely slippery.

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Dec 22, 2014

That office is not an individual. It is the symbol of the people of New York.

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