Read Mayor Adams’ forceful remarks against violent anti-Israel NYC protests: ‘We are not surrendering our way of life to anyone’

Mayor Eric Adams spoke forcefully Wednesday morning about how professional agitators escalated the protests at Columbia University and CUNY and the importance of putting the American flag back up. Excerpts of his remarks:

When I first started seeing protests take place in the city, it just did not feel right.

I saw similar indicators from the Black Lives Matters march of when it was brought to my attention, that there were those who came to the city to disrupt our city.

… And I know that there are those who are tempted to say, well, the majority of people may have been students.

You don’t have to be the majority to influence and co-opt an operation.

That is what this is about.