The Eric Adams administration is starting to shape up in New York City. Adams announced his pick of Keechant Sewell to be the commissioner of the New York Police Department during a press conference in Queens. It could have been done anywhere, but Adams decided to do it in front of a mural depicting convicted cop killer and fugitive Assata Shakur.
Eric Adams’ new NYPD commissioner is being appointed in front of a mural featuring Malcolm X, Nat Turner, Angela Davis, Huey Newton and Assata Shakur. pic.twitter.com/TshnCS3U31
— Matthew Chayes (@chayesmatthew) December 15, 2021
It’s a kind of blasphemy.
— Neil Aquino (@aquino1_neil) December 15, 2021
Absolutely some of the most offensive shit
— Nasubi Brain (@PromThesis) December 15, 2021
What the actual fuck
— Slime Pontifex👁🐍 (@PhonecianD) December 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/mimi_ivy/status/1471195368067006464
There’s something incredibly wrong with this picture and wholly insulting to the memories of the people depicted in the mural.
With the exception of Nat Turner, every person memorialized in that mural has an NYPD intelligence file with surveillance notes to the FBI
— Michael Corley (@MichaelCorleyNY) December 15, 2021
it's insulting to everyone involved
— Bayesian Pryor (@of_arbys) December 15, 2021
absolutely disgusting.
— quiim 🐙 (@Tresserras30) December 15, 2021
Disrespectful
— Zay☭ (@MarxistArtist) December 15, 2021
This is beyond any parody
— Yaroslav Kovalchuk (@YaroslavKovalc7) December 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/Toy_Morris/status/1471238561877966850
So the NY police is now honouring wanted terrorists. Good to know.
— Uncomfortable Brain (@uncomfybrain) December 15, 2021
So in front of someone who shot a cop? Smart choice.
— Galante118 (@Galante118MUT) December 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/mac78251/status/1471245758678589446
I'm sure this will end well.
— Turd Ferguson (@noahfection) December 15, 2021
Joanne Chesimard was a cop killer. Say her real name. Using her assumed name distances her from her crime.
— Velcra (@Velcra1959) December 15, 2021
Hey @ericadamsfornyc did you know someone on the mural is a communist fugitive wanted by the FBI for terrorism?
Now you do.
— Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) December 15, 2021
At least three of these "heroes" were involved in the murder of cops and/or judges. Where was this taken? Communist party headquarters?
— Airish1 (@airish1) December 15, 2021
Reportedly a housing project, so it is beyond a doubt it was intentional.
That mural should not exist.
— James Lindsay, mansplaining the girl-boss mindset (@ConceptualJames) December 15, 2021
Related:
Cop-killer mural update: Marquette University's Assata Shakur tribute 'is being removed immediately' http://t.co/PQdS0BjFbQ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 18, 2015
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