Bill de Blasio was forced to answer questions about police tactics seen in his city over the last week—though 'answer' is a strong word for what he actually did
. And it was not mentioned in the calls, but it’s also Breonna Taylor’s birthday today. She would have been 27. She was an EMT, and the Louisville police entered her home and shot her eight times. The officers were not wearing body cameras.
The initial call to de Blasio was from a man named Patrick, who has organized peaceful vigils outside the mayor’s residence every night, and wondered aloud why the police have become “werewolves” after curfew. De Blasio answered by talking about looting that happened days ago.
Toward the end de Blasio said, essentially, don’t believe what you see on video, though he also said that the videos prompted investigations. “Sometimes what we see with our own eyes is the whole story, and that means fast investigation, fast action. Sometimes it’s not the whole story,” he said. “Sometimes there’s more going on than a short video shows. That incident was horrible, with the pushing to the ground.
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