“We need to stop (them from exploiting) the safety of the pandemic by wearing masks, committing crimes,' said the mayor. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams has called on shop owners to require customers to remove their face masks when entering stores to help cut down on retail crime that has surged since the pandemic.
The measure is necessary to help police officers identify suspects who are evading law enforcement by wearing masks while committing crimes, Mr Adams said.“Let’s be clear, some of these characters going into stores that are wearing their mask, they’re not doing it because they’re afraid of the pandemic, they’re doing it because they’re afraid of the police,” Mr Adams said in a separate television interview on Monday on Pix 11.
Mr Adams referred specifically to an incident over the weekend when a person wearing a hazmat suit and mask robbed, shot and killed a deli worker on the Upper East Side in Manhattan.
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