Mayor de Blasio’s quick condemnation of Sgt. Hugh Barry for not following his training and waiting for NYPD Emergency Services Unit cops to arrive, rather than engaging with Deborah Danner and eventually fatally shooting the mentally ill woman when she came at him with a baseball bat, was not the first time he oversimplified an emotionally-charged situation with racial overtones to cast blame on the police.
In March 2012, in a speech that was a clear signal of his plans to run for Mayor the following year, then-Public Advocate Bill de Blasio gave a speech at John Jay College that offered a preview not only of his campaign positions but also his governing philosophy.
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