By: Rusty Brooks
New York political analysts are saying mayoral hopeful and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will have to explain his vote to not expel to girlfriend-beating former colleague from the state Senate, the N.Y Post reported.
The N.Y Post reported: the state Senate voted 53-8 to expel Sen. Hiram Monserrate in 2010 after he was convicted of misdemeanor assault for manhandling his girlfriend in an incident where he was caught on camera dragging her down a hallway while she was bleeding with cuts to her face.
“In a mayoral race, the Hiram Monserrate vote will come up. Adams is going to have to explain himself,” Baruch College public affairs professor Doug Muzzio told The Post
Adams was one of the eight senators who voted against expulsion — while also questioning cops’ “unusual handling” of the case and showing up to Monserrate’s sentencing, The Post reported.
Recently Adams made news when he promised an audit of NYPD facilities to make sure they are providing areas for NYPD women to privately nurse their infants.
Five police officers sued the NYPD in Brooklyn Federal Court last week, claiming the department had not provided them with clean and private spaces, as required by law. Instead, the women were forced to pump milk in front of colleagues, in filthy rooms, bathrooms and squad cars, the lawsuit alleges, The N.Y Daily News reported.
“The disturbing allegations in this lawsuit show that our City is failing working mothers,” Adams said before the announcement of an audit. “We cannot claim we are leading on gender equality when women cannot safely pump breast milk without facing ridicule or dangerous conditions.”
Adams has also recently supported the plan to hire 500 additional MTA cops in a Dec. 19 letter to MTA chairman Pat Foye and Gov. Andrew Cuomo batting back concerns from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other far leftists. that the move will exacerbate “over-policing” of poor people of color, The N.Y Post reported.
“As quality-of-life concerns among straphangers continue to rise, this is a critical step to ensure everyone feel safe while navigating our subway system….This uptick in misdemeanors contributes to a perception that our subway system is becoming less safe, undoubtedly causing many commuters to seek alternative modes of transportation”, Adams wrote in a letter which was recently published online
“I understand there are some who have criticized this move, claiming it will contribute to the over-policing of young black and brown men … but many do not remember what the city was like when I served on the police force in the 1980s and 1990s”, Adams concluded.
