Mayor Eric Adams spent Thanksgiving Day visiting the kids of first responders, giving out meals in Harlem and deliberate to cease at Rikers Island later to have dinner with a jailed mom and her child.
Hizzoner’s packed schedule began in midtown Manhattan, addressing households on the twenty first annual First Responder’s Youngsters’s Basis – a charity that raises cash for the youngsters of first responders that both died or have been injured serving within the line of obligation.
“I nonetheless get up on daily basis to say I pledge allegiance to the flag of america of America…That is the best nation on the globe – solely nation with ‘dream’ hooked up to our title. There’s no German dream, French dream, Polish dream, however rattling it, that’s an American dream!” Adams, a former captain within the NYPD, mentioned to cheers.
“Don’t ever depend out those that have sacrificed their lives for us. The police commissioner and I are dedicated to the general public security of this metropolis and the general public security of this nation and I wish to thank the members of the family who're right here. You might have misplaced your family members, however they [are] nonetheless with you.”
He additionally stopped by the beginning of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, after becoming a member of NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell final night time for a security briefing because the helium balloons have been being inflated.
Then the self-proclaimed vegan – though he generally strays off that menu – scooped a inexperienced veggie dish beside the Rev. Al Sharpton, on the civil rights chief’s Nationwide Motion Community headquarters in Harlem.
The pair labored alongside different notable metropolis pols like Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Queens) and Comptroller Brad Lander.
“After being right here, I’m heading to Rikers Island to sit down down with among the inmates,” he mentioned. “There’s a younger woman there who has a new child child and I’m going to sit down down and have a meal together with her as she’s incarcerated proper now.
Metropolis Corridor didn't present further particulars in regards to the assembly when contacted by The Put up.
Adams added he’ll additionally discuss to correction officers on the controversial jail advanced, which has recorded 18 deaths of detainees for the reason that begin of this yr.
“The true sign this yr as we get it, proper, as a result of some folks suppose it’s thanks-receiving – and it’s not, it’s Thanksgiving.”
“That is many stops we’re making, simply to offer because of what the town has been for us. And what we wish to present for others,” added the mayor.
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