Biden will meet with Mayor Eric Adams
NEW YORK — President Joe Biden is scheduled to travel to New York City to meet with Mayor Eric Adams this week as the city reels from the loss of two NYPD officers shot and killed last week.
We woke up to learn that a man was fatally stabbed a few blocks from my #Brooklyn office. With @potus coming to #NYC to discuss gun violence on Thursday, let’s not forget those being stabbed, thrown in front of trains, assaulted, raped, robbed & carjacked. https://t.co/E05DDgzH7h
— Nicole Malliotakis (@NMalliotakis) January 29, 2022
The White House says Biden will travel Thursday to New York to meet with Adams to “discuss his administration’s comprehensive strategy to combat gun crime, which includes historic levels of funding for cities and states to put more cops on the beat and invest in community violence prevention and intervention programs, as well as stepped-up federal law enforcement efforts against illegal gun traffickers.”
Biden’s trip comes after thousands of uniformed police officers from the country flocked to New York City’s 5th Avenue around St. Patrick’s Cathedral to pay their respects to fallen NYPD officers Jason Rivera and Wilber Mora, who were shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence call earlier this month.
The shooter was killed by a third officer.
During Rivera’s funeral, his widow criticized newly sworn-in New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who announced shortly after taking office that his office will no longer prosecute some crimes.
