Adams sets up City Hall showdown after vetoing bill forcing NYC cops to record all street stops
NY Post
Mayor Eric Adams drew a line in the sand with the City Council Friday as he vetoed a controversial bill that would make cops record all street stops — and railed that the measure is a massive waste of the NYPDs time.
The mayor now faces the likely hood that his veto of the bill, which had overwhelming support in the council, will be be overridden — and he now must wage a battle to recruit councilmembers to his side as Speaker Adrienne Adams closes ranks.
“I’m asking the city council members read this entire bill and then compare it with a level one stop and see and fully understand the interaction,” the Mayor said at City Hall.
“I’m hoping that this is a period of educating… and people say well, ‘How do we get what we want without endangering the public safety aspect,’” he continued.
In the City Hall’s Blue Room on Friday morning, the mayor made his case to the council who may be on the fence over the volume of reporting in the bill.
The apparent outreach came after days of efforts from the mayor’s office to sway public opinion on the legislation through social media videos and pointed statements at public events, including at a bar mitzvah and a Real Estate Board of New York gala.
