De Blasio and Mark-Viverito Knock Giuliani’s Comments on Race and Policing

Jillian Jorgensen

Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s comments this morning about “liberal, guilty whites” who won’t discuss crime in black communities didn’t sit well with some current members of city government.

Mr. Giuliani said Mayor Bill de Blasio is “making a terrible mistake” in the wake of Eric Garner’s death by emphasizing police killings of black citizens rather than the problem of crime within black communities, something he said “liberal guilty whites” refuse to say is a larger problem.

“I really make it a point not to respond to comments like that,” Mr. de Blasio told the Observer today at an unrelated Gracie Mansion press conference. “The facts are just so clear. There is a stark problem in this country. We have to come to grips with it, and we have to deal with it.”



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