MacCallum challenges NY BLM leader amid tiff with incoming mayor: 'Don't throw 'White privilege' at me'

Black Lives Matter of Greater New York leader Walter "Hawk" Newsome defended his criticisms of incoming New York City Mayor Eric Adams, after the Brooklyn Democrat announced he would be reconstituting a plainclothed NYPD division.

Newsome previously told Fox News that his comments about "fire and bloodshed" were not a threat toward Adams or the city. Instead, he said, those are potential outcomes independent of organized leadership if the city government does not listen to their demands.

"The mayor[-elect] is engaging in a political circus," said Newsome, an attorney and former Bronx political candidate. "My parents didn’t raise a clown. I’m not here to play the political games with him."

Newsome accused Adams, who will take office as the Times Square ball drops on New Year's Eve, of trying to use BLM-GNY and himself as a way to make news and give himself a public relations boost.