During a press briefing about planned anti-Trump protests in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams was asked about the potential for disorder and unrest, as well as the possibility of the Trump Administration stepping in and deploying the military or National Guard.
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00:00Has there been any communication with the Trump administration about the potential need to bring in the National Guard and or the military?
00:10We have made it clear to the federal government that in just three simple words, we got this.
00:20Allie?
00:24The other night at the protests late Tuesday, there appeared to be federal officers there, possibly deploying some type of gas onto the protesters there.
00:35What do you know about what happened there and do you anticipate federal officers engaging in any protests tomorrow?
00:43Do you want to take the first part?
00:46So we have been coordinating extensively with our federal partners, as the mayor just said,
00:53as the commissioner just said, we got this, we've got hundreds of specially trained officers who are expert at disorder control, who know how to do this very well.
01:04And we have been dealing with protests for certainly years, months, this is no different, the causes change, but the response is the same.
01:16And so that coordination, which is ongoing in that communication, we are quite confident that we are able to police these independently and quite effectively.
01:28At the other night, was that, like,
01:31The canister.
01:32So, you know, obviously everybody was on the scene together, federal agencies, who are responsible for the force protection of their own personnel.
01:46Involved in that particular incident, having an interaction with protesters.
01:53So, our message has been very clear, our communication with federal partners has been very clear.
01:59That we are there to help police the protests, so that the federal government can do what it needs to do, while we are keeping the public safe.
02:08Right next to you, Ally.
02:10Yeah, I'm from New York One.
02:12Could you just, thank you, could you just elaborate on the extra security at religious institutions, including Jewish ones?
02:19How many extra officers are patrolling these institutions around the city?
02:25Yep. Starting last night, we deployed a lot of extra officers to religious, cultural, and diplomatic sites across the city.
02:37That heightened deployment has continued into the day, and it will continue for the next several days, as long as it's necessary.
02:44As always, we don't give out specific numbers, but it is occurring across every borough of the city.
02:50Katie?
02:51Hi. This question is for the mayor, for the commissioner, I know you mentioned it earlier, Mayor Adams, that they're outside of the union.
03:00Do you have any evidence for anything to show us proof that there is a concentrated outside agitator?
03:11Because right now, I know last year, there wasn't really a lot of evidence to back that up, and I'm serious if you have any more information.
03:16Okay, you said as last year, there was no large amount.
03:22That's the biggest mistake we make when we try to define the situation.
03:27There were outside agitators on the Columbia campus when, at the time,
03:33Assistant Commissioner Daughtry and Chief Shell was there.
03:38There were individuals who were part of taking over the Hamilton Hall that did not attend the school.
03:43Some of them were professionals.
03:45Folks, when you have 5,000 people on the street,
03:49all you need is 20 to be an outside agitator.
03:53You don't need 4,999.
03:56You have a small number of people that are professionals.
03:59We saw it during the Black Lives Matter situation when I met with former Mayor Bill de Blasio.
04:05They were training people to have glass bottles filled with ice, bricks,
04:09knapsacks, all of the tools that were used to aggravate.
04:14And so get out of your mind that an outside agitator must be the numerical majority to the people who are participating.
04:22Outside agitators go in, they rile up the crowd, they start throwing items at the police.
04:28They start doing things to get the police aggravated.
04:32They use fire bombs to burn cars.
04:35They, we saw that during the BLM movement.
04:40That's what an outside agitator is.
04:41So whomever is saying there are no outside agitators coming in and
04:46their professionals and Tifa and others, they just don't understand policing.
04:51You're not the majority.
04:52That's not your goal.
04:53You're not going there to be the majority.
04:56You're going there to hijack a movement so that you can aggravate and create disorder in the city.
05:03That's what an outside agitator, they were there in Columbia, and they're there at many of our marches.
05:08And so if you want to write a story about there are no outside agitators, feel free to do that.
05:12We're going to protect the people of this city based on intelligence, not rumors.
05:17I was asking if you had any intelligence to share for this current.
05:20No, no, go to the next person.
05:22Hi Mayor, just to push the leader forward on training and lessons learned from the BLM protests.
05:31Can you talk about some of the training implemented in the NYPD as you guys prepare for tomorrow?
05:38Mike?
05:44Hi, I'm Michael Gerber, I'm the Deputy Commissioner of Legal Matters.
05:47And following the Floyd protests, DOI did a detailed report focusing on policies and procedures.
05:55I made a number of recommendations, we adopted those recommendations.
05:59So there are lots of pieces to that, but I think most critically was the adoption of department policy in the patrol guide,
06:06specifically about the policing of First Amendment activities, outlining responsibilities,
06:12outlining how we go about maximizing the exercise of First Amendment rights while also maintaining public safety, enforcing the law.
06:21And then we train widely across the department on that, from people who are starting out as police officers to our executives.
06:27They all receive training on that new policy.
06:30Rocco?
06:31So, along the lines of the same topic, the department now has a First Amendment protest supervisor.
06:38What has that supervisor brought to the table?
06:41What is new now in how the police handles things?
06:44And why was the first supervisor, Chief Hayward, replaced after such a short time?
06:49So, there are a number of different pieces to that.
06:52So, in the protest settlement, we are coming to the tail end of phase one.
06:57We have not yet started phase two.
06:59And in phase one, we have developed a variety of new policies, and procedures, and training that speak specifically to the terms of the protest settlement.
07:08The FAA executive, the First Amendment activities executive, as per the settlement is an executive in the chief of department's office, from the operational side.
07:21And that person has a variety of responsibilities under the protest settlement.
07:25Now, that person is not a lawyer, that person is not giving legal advice.
07:30That person is not the incident commander, but that person, among other things, is responsible, and really this is going to kick it into phase two, so we're not there yet.
07:38But in phase two, that person will be responsible for, first of all, a variety of administrative tasks and record keeping in terms of protests.
07:48And then connected to that as part of DOI's oversight role when they are reviewing particular protests.
07:54So that FAA executive will be responsible for making sure they have the records they need, but then also for interacting with them, for explaining to them what happened,
08:01getting feedback from them, and helping really lead the department in its interactions with DOI in its oversight function.
08:07We, as always, do not comment on individual personnel moves.
08:18Time for one more.
08:19Sorry, Mark.
08:21Just a couple of questions.
08:24I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about the deployment of officers in light of sending extra teams to religious institutions and the protests happening at the same time.
08:36How are those decisions going to be made?
08:38Obviously, you've mentioned the 34,000 officers that are going to be out there, but could you talk a little bit about rotating them and moving them and deploying them while all these things are happening?
08:49One question I had was, what's the search been like online in places like Telegram or in the dark web to sort of find out what some of these agitators who have been known to the department with either the Columbia protests or other things,
09:04like what's being done to keep an eye on them or to sort of get ahead of what they might be doing or planning for these demonstrations?
09:12Let me start with the first part in terms of how we move our resources around.
09:17As I mentioned, we are activating our joint operations center tomorrow morning.
09:23So the movements of resources in the department will all be controlled by the joint operations center as it relates to the protest activity.
09:33And Chief Shell will be running the operations in the jock tomorrow.
09:38Rebecca, do you want to speak to the second part?
09:42Sure.
09:43So this is very fundamental to what our intelligence personnel do in coordination with their federal partners and partners around the world.
09:52In the private sector.
09:53So this is something we deal with every day.
09:55There is, of course, a large public manifestation of both protest and obviously a lot of online calls for civil disobedience and other activity.
10:08But we are knee deep in monitoring for threats of all sides, of all kinds around the world every day.
10:16We are unfortunately have become quite accustomed to dealing with a bubbling up of conflict overseas and potential ramifications here in the city at the same time.
10:29As we have a very different scenario playing out across the country, namely these protests that some of which have involved acts of civil disobedience and even violence.
10:39So this is what we do every day, we have large teams, they are quite good at what they do, and we have wonderful partners.
10:46So we are confident we are going to be able to get through not just tomorrow, but whatever is on our horizon.
10:52And we should, we want to be clear and we want to keep in mind, we have 8.5 million people in New York City.
10:59They have a protest of 5,000, 10,000.
11:03The loudest, they are not the numerical majority.
11:08We saw a video that went viral of a woman who was just trying to get to work.
11:14And the level of disrespect that was being shown to her, it impacts 8.5 million people.
11:23When you block traffic, that emergency vehicle can't respond to the heart attack.
11:27When you decide that you're going to burn police vehicles, you are showing a level of displaying disorder.
11:35When you break windows of shops and glass, people work inside there to provide for their family.
11:42That's what we're going to balance, and we're not going to romanticize what disorder does to a city.
11:48You see it being played out across this country.
11:53We can't allow it to happen here.
11:56That is our job.
11:57Our job is to allow that mother to go to her job.
12:01Our job is to allow family members to pick up their loved ones from school.
12:06Our job is to make sure emergency vehicles can get to where they have to go to provide services for New Yorkers.
12:12We have 8.5 million people in this city.
12:16And we're not going to allow a numerical minority to impact the quality of life that they deserve.
12:23That is what we're going to do.
12:25We do it well, no one does it better than us, and we're going to do it tomorrow on the 14th.
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