New York City Mayor Eric Adams ripped into D-Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and City Comptroller Brad Lander for their proposition that, Jordan Neely, a homeless man in NYC, was “murdered” when a 24 year old Marine had restrained him in a chokehold.

Ocasio-Cortez made a statement on twitter which reads: “Jordan Neely was murdered. But bc Jordan was houseless and crying for food in a time when the city is raising rents and stripping services to militarize itself while many in power demonize the poor, the murderer gets protected w/ passive headlines + no charges.”

Jordan Neely was murdered.

But bc Jordan was houseless and crying for food in a time when the city is raising rents and stripping services to militarize itself while many in power demonize the poor, the murderer gets protected w/ passive headlines + no charges.

It’s disgusting. https://t.co/YJeQp9bbgE

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 3, 2023

The following is the statement Adams put out after the death of Neely.

Mayor Adams was attacked by AOC on Twitter in remarks to his statement that there is “a lot we don’t know about what happened.” AOC disrespectfully stated in the tweet, “This honestly feels like a new low: not being able to clearly condemn a public murder because the victim was of a social status some would deem ‘too low’ to care about.”

Furthermore, Adam’s criticized, Lander’s after he commented on the death of Neely through Twitter stating, “NYC is not Gotham. We must not become a city where a mentally ill human being can be choked to death by a vigilante without consequence. Or where the killer is justified & cheered.”

NYC is not Gotham. We must not become a city where a mentally ill human being can be choked to death by a vigilante without consequence. Or where the killer is justified & cheered. https://t.co/oQDnmItp83

— Brad Lander (@bradlander) May 3, 2023

In a shocking decision to speak out against his fellow democrats, Adam said on “CNN Primetime,” “I don’t think that’s very responsible at the time where we are still investigating the situation.”

Adams said, “Let’s let the DA conduct his investigation with the law enforcement officials. To really interfere with that is not the right thing to do… I’m going to be responsible and allow them to do their job and allow them to determine exactly what happened.” 

Adams emphatically expressed that the investigation is still going on and said, “we don’t know exactly what happened here.” Adams made it clear that not all investigations are the same after he was asked if it was an appropriate decision for passengers such as the marine to take matters into their own hands.

Doubling down on his point, Mayor Adams said, ‘I was a former transit police officer, and I responded to many jobs where you had a passenger assisting someone. And so we cannot just blanketly say what a passenger should or should not do in a situation like that.”

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