in a suit that spells out “END GUN VIOLENCE.” Only his ensemble is worse, because it’s overtly hypocritical.On Monday, accompanied by his date Tracey Collins, Adams rolled into the annual fete at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City channeling less Gilded Age-era garb, in keeping with the theme, and more gilded... well, bullshit. The back of Adams’ tuxedo jacket declared, “END GUN VIOLENCE” above an image of a gun with a red cross-out through it.
Adams has notoriously been outspoken about tackling gun violence in New York City, even going so far as to issue a 15-page document aptly titled “” The “blueprint” emphasizes ending that ending problem will “require both intervention and prevention,” which is to say: Stricter policing. Anyone with a pulse can see that Adams’s “blueprint” is all too similar to the aggressive policing and prosecution practices set forth by his predecessor, Mayor Bill de Blasio. As New York Focushis plan “underscores how little has really changed since the 2020 protests.” Their report also notes that Adams’s plan to increase policing to combat gun violence almost exactly “mirrors de Blasio’s 2016, 2020, and 2021 gun violence plans.
While Adams has addressed New York City’s role in racist and brutal policing, he’s also claimed he’ll have the NYPD, which is