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| Adam Gray for New York Post |
Masked protesters march down city streets, specifically in Jewish neighborhoods, chanting in support of Hamas: It’s intimidation as twisted as a Klan rally in a black area.
That’s why Mayor Eric Adams wants a city ban on masked public demonstrations — and pretty obviously why the City Council is resisting.
The same ban was statewide law until lefties in the Legislature repealed it in 2020 (under the pretext of fighting COVID) and this year basically flipped off Gov. Kathy Hochul’s call to restore it.
Why progressives favor intimidating Jews (or other minorities) is a question for another time, and of course the council naysayers pretend their foot-dragging is about protecting civil liberties and/or fears the ban would be used to target Muslims or the immuno-compromised.
Hogwash! The state ban never brought any such abuse, in more than a century on the books. (Plus, the proposed bill includes medical necessity as an affirmative defense, and the only potential penalty is a fine.)
Nor is today’s majority-minority NYPD going to break new ground in oppression — as if any NYC judge would play along.
Nope: The council majority just hates cops and resists giving them any tools to make their jobs easier and the streets safer.
Note that the progs are literally siding with the Ku Klux Klan here.
The Klan challenged the state ban long ago, insisting the Constitution protects hood-wearing. --->READ MORE HERE
The fate of Mayor Eric Adams’ fledgling mask ban is up in the air after a bungled rollout that had even potentially supportive Jewish groups calling it “overly broad,” The Post has learned.
Adams and City Hall officials tried to schedule a pair of events to unveil the anti-masking measure — even switching up the location Wednesday — only to cancel them amid failed talks with advocates and City Council lawmakers, sources said.
But despite the snag, the Adams administration insists the ban is still very much in play as they work to make certain modifications.
Many insiders lambasted Adams’ apparent ham-fisted election-year move to push a mask ban that goes farther than a watered-down restriction passed by Albany lawmakers in the recent state budget.
“It”s frustrating that they did it this way because the Jewish community wants a mask ban,” one City Council source said.
The push to side-step Albany — spearheaded by First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro, a controversial veteran of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s administration — first ran into trouble when he brushed aside concerns raised by a pair of influential Jewish groups that the ban went too far, sources said.
The Anti-Defamation League and United Jewish Appeal — which have been supportive of banning masks favored by often-antisemitic protesters — sounded the alarm over the drafted bill’s vagueness and lack of exemptions for religious garb, such as burqas, or medical reasons.
“If there are just a couple people standing on the street wearing a mask, this applies to them, unlike the Albany bill, which is specific to protest,” one source said. --->READ MORE HERE
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