Our guess is that some top city officials had mixed feelings about the bad behavior of the protesters who were camped out in City Hall Park over the final days of the budget process.
On the one hand, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and City Comptroller Scott Stringer had to be a bit embarrassed that those who swept them up in the dubious exercise of finding a billion dollars or more in Police Department cuts resorted to juvenile behavior like trying to provoke cops who were there to maintain order, and circulating the phone numbers of Council Members so they could be badgered at all hours for not defunding the department completely.
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