De Blasio “If They Had Just Gotten Out of the Way” And Not Attempted to Surround Car . . .



In an interview with NY1 on Saturday night, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to defend NYPD officers following an earlier incident in Brooklyn in which a pair of police vehicles plowed through a group of protesters. De Blasio argued that it was an “impossible situation”:

If those protesters had just gotten out of the way and not created an attempt to surround that vehicle, we would not be talking about this.


In a situation like that, it’s a very, very tense situation. And imagine what it would be like, you’re just trying to do your job and then you see hundreds of people converging upon you. I’m not gonna blame officers who are trying to deal with an absolutely impossible situation. The folks who were converging on that police car did the wrong thing to begin with and they created an untenable situation.


I wish the officers had found a different approach. But let’s begin at the beginning. The protesters in that video did the wrong thing to surround them, surround that police car, period.”

De Blasio’s “if they had just gotten out of the way” comment quickly went viral on social media.

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