NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams calls New York the laughingstock of the rest of the country due to the state’s so-called bail reform laws.
He made the statement after a video of a teen attacking and choking an NYPD officer in a Manhattan subway station. The teen had recently been arrested and released without bail.
“When I say ‘we are the laughingstock of the country’, this is what I’m talking about. How do we keep our cities safe when the other parts of the criminal justice system, they have abandoned our public safety apparatus,” Adams said as a news conference on Tuesday.
The attack happened Saturday evening at the 125th St. Lexington Ave. subway station in East Harlem.
The 16-year-old had tried to jump the turnstiles when he was confronted by officers with the New York City Police Department. The officers asked him to leave the station and he allegedly became confrontational and attacked.
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