Joe Biden in New York, against rise of violence

The American president came to support the mayor of the city, Eric Adams, after the death of two policemen, targeted by gunshots during an intervention.

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It was a call for domestic violence, as there are so much. In Harlem, on the 135 e Street, a mother had called the police because her son was threatening. This Friday, January 21, two New York police officers, Wilbert Mora and Jason Rivera, penetrate in a long corridor, open a door. Two shots depart, pulled by the Forsené: Jason Rivera, 22, died on the spot, Wilbert Mora, 27, died of his injuries the following week. These two dead have been those too much in New York.

The funeral of the two policemen were organized at five days apart, in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. On the fifth avenue, it was a blue tide. Thousands of New York policemen in uniform, to support their deceased colleagues; Everything behind their mayor, Eric Adams, a former African American policeman of Brooklyn, one of theirs, who took office on the 1 January 2022.

The centrist democrat has conducted campaign against crime. Certainly, we are far from the record of homicide reached in 1990 (2,262), but they went from 319 in 2019 to 485 in 2021. An unbearable level for the New York population, which reflects the situation of the country: homicides continue to increase after bonding 30% in 2020, depending on the FBI. The subject has become a major concern for Americans. At the approach of the mid-term elections, President Joe Biden has chosen to appear alongside Mr. Adams, at the police headquarters, during a visit to New York, Thursday, February 3rd.

“The answer is not to abandon our streets. The answer is to gather, build trust between police and communities. The answer is not to define the police. It’s from you Give the tools, training, funding, to be partners, to be protectors, “said Joe Biden. “Every day in this country, 106 people are killed. Since the beginning of the year, 64 children were injured by weapons, killed. It’s enough. Too much.”

Everything seems out of control

Joe Biden does not have the reputation of being lax. During the presidential campaign, he had to defend himself for voting in 1994 when he was senator, Bill Clinton’s laws that led to the mass incarceration of African Americans. It has not been favorable to the movement of cutting police funding (“Defund The Police”), after the murder of George Floyd, African-American suffocated in May 2020 by a minneapolis policeman, which reported the Black Movement Lives Matter.

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