Eric Adams personally ‘damage’ by dying of Tyre Nichols

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams, a retired police captain who’s made public security the cornerstone of his agenda, stated Friday the police beating of Black motorist Tyre Nichols has “damage” him on a private degree.

Metropolis and state police departments are ready for any native protests in response to the anticipated public launch Friday of a video displaying the lethal encounter, stated Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul at an unrelated press convention in Manhattan.

Five fired Memphis police officers were charged with murder and different crimes within the killing of Nichols, who died three days after the officers confronted him at a visitors cease. Nichols’ household and legal professionals have stated the video exhibits the officers, who’re all Black, savagely beating the 29-year-old father.

“To see what’s reported, that 5 African American officers are concerned on this, simply actually damage me personally,” Adams stated in response to a query from POLITICO. “It was all the time my perception that diversifying our departments with totally different ethnic teams would permit us to have the extent of policing all of us deserve.”

Adams spent greater than 20 years within the New York Police Division and was the co-founder of 100 Blacks in Regulation Enforcement Who Care, an advocacy group that speaks out towards police brutality and racial profiling. The mayor has spoken overtly about being arrested as a teenager and beaten by police.

“What it seems is that these officers tarnished a lot of the work that many people tried to perform,” Adams stated.

Hochul urged New Yorkers to stay peaceable in the event that they select to assemble after the video is made public.

“I’ll ask everybody to heed the words of Tyre Nichols’ mom on behalf of her household and his 4-year-old youngster — in case you’re going to protest, please achieve this peacefully in her son’s identify,” Hochul stated.