New York City Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD leadership decried the 'concertive, organizing effort' among professional anti-Israel 'agitators' at Columbia and NYU campuses.
Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Police Department top brass condemned 'outside agitators' fanning the flames of anti-Israel protests at Columbia and New York University, as police made more arrests. At his usual Tuesday press conference from City Hall, Adams, a Democrat and former police officer, praised the NYPD's response. 'We can't have outside agitators come in and be destructive to our city,' Adams said.
' In an appearance on WABC Tuesday morning, NYPD Commissioner Kaz Daughtry said the department identified 'known professional agitators' at Monday night’s protests who wanted to 'rouse up the mob mentality to agitate the officers to get the officers to react, to get one of them to assault one of the protesters so they can get that image, ‘look I’m getting brutally assaulted by the police.
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