Mayor de Blasio Discovers “Run-and-Gun Situations”
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Maybe mayors are as human as police
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In defending his decision to virtually shut down NYC Monday night from what was predicted as an impending blizzard, Mayor de Blasio said “Look, it’s a run-and-gun situation,” meaning that he was working in a highly compressed timetable and had to make spur-of-the moment decisions that could mean life or death for people affected. Kinda sounds like a typical NYC cop’s day.
No reasonable person (which is about 1/2 of Gothams’s population on a good day) could fault him or Gov. Cuomo for taking precautions especially given the dire forecasts that he received from the weather service.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has discovered that some jobs require quick decisions that may not be correct in hindsight
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But Mr. de Blasio is now on the wrong end of the lynch-mob atmosphere that he has helped to whip up, if not create, with his positons on the police and the rich, amongst other quarry he’s gone after.
Perhaps he can empathize a bit more with the police the next time they face a “run-and-gun situation” that doesn’t have a happy ending.
-I.M. Windee
