Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday offered no concrete answers to address the recent wave of shootings plaguing the Big Apple — as he dodged questions from every major city newspaper. “[There’s] a lot we need to do to provide more and better options, particularly for young people in Harlem, in Upper Manhattan,” de Blasio told reporters during his daily City Hall press briefing. During de Blasio’s roughly 45-minute briefing, he gave hardly any details on how he plans to combat the new wave of gun violence in the city. Some of the NYPD’s top brass — including Chief of Department Terance Monahan and Chief of Patrol Fausto Pichardo — also joined. There too, de Blasio only promised there’d be “more to say in the coming days.”

Source: The Local July 07, 2020 17:47 UTC