Read More Mar 5, 2021. Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most in local and national politics. You must drink piss instantly". We're funded by your subscriptions, your donations, advertising, and a generous grant from the Wyncote Foundation. It says nowhere that people will, the police will respond with violence, aggression, or arrest. All rights reserved. This is a critique I have the NYPD and I'm going to go deal with this, that discipline takes too long. Question: Yes, New York City, Brian, thanks for taking my call. The point of protest is civil disobedience, and that includes your curfew. It doesn't feel good, but this is against a different backdrop where we have seen enough violence coming from again, a small number of protestors systematically to know we're dealing with a much more complex reality and keeping people safe sometimes means stopping things in place while a situation is addressed and then reopening again. Ryan was moved to On the Media, a different national call-in show, where she honed her skills working in radio. © 2021 New York Public Radio. The there's just a dichotomy here that we need to acknowledge and it gets to Mike's point where he says he's not sure if I'm listening. Our phones are open at 6-4-6-4-3-5-7-2-8-0. So, my question is this your policy? I just wanted to ask specifically about the budget. Hello Patrick. To the kettling, Brian, no, I don't – look, I don't want to see protesters hemmed in if they don't need to be and I'll have this conversation with Commissioner Shea. It doesn't work that way. Mayor: You could say everyone in the crowd is peaceful. Mayor: The protest is in many ways about police, obviously the – it has been done peacefully. But I don't think that actually is fair to everyday New Yorkers in our neighborhoods. Good morning again, everyone. Phone number: 212-433-WNYC (9692) Tweet at Brian Lehrer with the #AskTheMayor hashtag. When things got cut in April, it was because they could not exist in the coronavirus. From the beginning of these protests, we saw not only in New York City, but in cities around the country, a small well-organized group of folks, some call them anarchists, you can use different names, who were aiming to do violence, who were aiming to harm police officers, harm property, create destruction for the purpose of an agenda. But with officers on all sides, they had no way out. I believe deeply in the labor movement and what unions were supposed to mean, and I've been explicit for years that too often, the police unions, particularly certain unions, there's five different unions, they are all different different leaders, but some of the leaders, some of the unions have spent a lot of time dividing the city and holding us back. Required fields are marked *. Mary, a white woman from Boulder, Colo., said white people must also participate in ending police brutality against black Americans by contributing politically. I've been organizing the silent nonviolent vigils at Carl Schurz in Gracie Mansion at 7:00 pm every night. And Ashley, thank you for the question. There's people gathered there, police standing back, letting them protest after curfew. A lot of people were upset. During his weekly appearance with Brian Lehrer on WNYC radio, de Blasio didn’t say very much when Lehrer asked about the Post report at the end of his “Ask the Mayor” appearance. Call Brian Lehrer for #AskTheMayor, Friday morning at 11:10am and ask about the budget (see above sample question). Lehrer: And Mayat, we're going to leave it there. So I've been out protesting. I was out in Brooklyn last night, trailing a protest to watch exactly what was happening, moved all over a part of Brooklyn, no interference. I talked to people who for 30 years have had a store and saw it destroyed in a matter of minutes. I gather on the top of the hill at 136th street in Mott Haven, as officers were still processing close to a hundred protestors, Recording: [Person 1: “We're trying to, we're trying to – we’re peacefully protesting, they're trying to keep us in as they’re telling us to go home or we're locked in between walls of police, hitting us with batons, hitting us with their bikes and asking us not to resist.” Person 2: “Yeah, and I have it on video.” Offenhartz: “How, I mean, I know this is a ridiculous question. I was at the memorial yesterday in Brooklyn. This is where that there's a sense, and I hear it loud and clear of double standard, and that's not good. A National Call-In About Racism, Violence, and Our Future Together, answering calls from listeners across the nation. WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show to Mark the Pandemic’s Anniversary with a Reading of Names of New Yorkers who lost their lives to COVID. Current is an editorially independent, nonprofit service of the American University School of Communication. Mr. Mayor, as a matter of policy, why is it not required for every police officer who's out on the streets, in the pandemic, in a crowd to wear a mask? I've got a year and a half. We have put massive amount of money and I'll get the updated version of what Juan Gonzalez assessed years ago when he said, and this administration there's been a massive redistribution of wealth. With no apparent provocation, officers shoved protesters onto sidewalks. Built with the Largo WordPress Theme from the Institute for Nonprofit News. I'm frustrated by it too. I've spent years and years in communities talking to people and they want safety and security and peace, and then there's also a tremendous issue about over-policing or disrespectful policing or anything that's inappropriate in the police. Producer on the Brian Lehrer Show, the station's flagship public affairs call-in show. You're worried about a few storefronts, help them get boarded up, but don't use robbery as an excuse. But I think there's a, there's almost a little bit of magical thinking here that the horrible stuff that happened Sunday night, Monday night, didn't happen. All rights reserved. I feel it. Mr. Mayor, you are a disgrace. They blend in, their own materials show that they blend in, and that does not allow any violence against innocent people, but it is the point that there's a complexity here that has to be acknowledged. Your email address will not be published. Monday’s program functioned as a way to measure Americans’ emotions about the recent protests, said Megan Ryan, WNYC head of live radio, in a press release Monday. You're on WNYC with the mayor. That's one of the ones that again is being immediately acted upon, but I want to see much faster. I've been in more than I can count, and I don't forget a single one of them, and I don't for a moment feel distanced from the people protesting. We've seen a persistent pattern in some groups, and it's been very small in the scheme of things, but it's been absolutely persistent here in cities, around America of people aimed to do violence to the police, to communities, to property and are doing it systematically, are doing according to plan. That's all we want, to show that they're with the people as well, and—” Person 2: “They just keep proving us wrong.” Person 1: “Right, right. WNYC’s Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. If people feel that the police are not holding themselves to the same standard that they hold everyone else, that is when a breakdown in trust occurs and we cannot allow that to happen. I hope that all the police officers are safe in this, and I hope all the protestors are safe in this, and I'll talk to you next week. WNYC’s Brian Lehrer has been hosting the “Ask the Mayor” segment, in which Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from New Yorkers, on Fridays for a long time. Mayat’s question is very fair. The Brian Lehrer Show. The mayor in Cadman Plaza at a memorial for George Floyd, June 4th, 2020. Then when we thought that was being reduced and we could move forward, two nights of property destruction out of nowhere, hadn't seen it in a long time. I mean, you've been focusing on safety and these are people that are technically supposed to protect us and they are not wearing face masks. I've been in protests where it's happened. Brian Lehrer: It’s Brian Lehrer on WNYC. Question: Even makes any sense. And that's an issue, but we're going to honor that. Sometimes it's not the whole story. Let's start right there. Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. And instead of participating in positive change, they've tried to stand in the way of it. By submitting your information, you're agreeing to receive communications from New York Public Radio in accordance with our Terms. The – you know, he apparently either made a move to do it, or did it for a moment, then turned it back off and the crowd saw it and started yelling at him, your body camera's still not on. I mean, there's obviously exceptions, but overwhelmingly police officers are supposed to wear those face coverings for everyone's safety. On another level there's a challenge that we're facing that's underlying, and this incident in the Bronx is indicative. Mayor: Okay, let me first speak to Mayat’s very, very important question and I'll quickly respond to you, Brian. I apologize. And the way – the things we're hearing from the Mayor, I think are upsetting. When you see something with your own eyes. I know people always say budgets shows values. ... Lehrer: Let's take a call from a teacher as a segue from that. You didn't use the word kittling, but protesters are using it, meaning panning people in, and that's COVID risk to if the police are panning people in a way that they have to be really, really closer to each other, then they're going to be before and police officers aren't wearing masks themselves, in many cases police officers are behaving toward people who have only demonstrated peaceful behavior in ways that are inflaming people's attitudes against group. A caller from Baton Rouge, La., said they participated in a protest that remained consistently peaceful, while a Milwaukee listener said police entered a local protest “blazing” and tear-gassed the crowd. This is like a known thing, not just here, but all over the country. You better go up to Burnside Avenue in the Bronx and talk to immigrant Latino and Latina store owners who fought their whole life to create something for themselves and their community. The policy is police officers are supposed to wear face coverings in public, period. Do you accept the premise? Transcript: Mayor de Blasio Appears Live on the Brian Lehrer Show. The Brian Lehrer Show, in conjunction with The Harris Poll, served up a history of the American Culture Wars in our lifetimes, as seen through years that end with the number 8. So, Mayat’s question is really essential and we have to do better, but yet do the union stand in the way of that process constantly, absolutely. They don't set up a way and say, oh, we are the anarchists over here who aim to do violence, that's not what they do. March 19, 2021. Pick Up the Phone and Call: A New Holiday. I want to assure everybody I am listening from my heart and my soul. They wanted it on video. Question: Hi, it's Patrick [inaudible] Yorkville. Lehrer: I hear you, and I could go down a less that we don't have time for, of incidents similar to what I just described in Mott Haven last night on Wednesday night, on Tuesday night. The Ask the Mayor calls are like, "Hi Brian, first of all thank you and I love you. We need to deal with them. It has to be fixed and that bothers me. So I'm listening deeply to that, and I'm listening to the cries for help and the deep desire for reform and NYPD. I feel like there's an inability to look at things with any subtlety at all, Brian, respectfully. 117 comments. It's peaceful. Brian Lehrer: It's the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC. That must change. There are times when it's understandable. This is a debate we should have in this city. “Either the COVID’s gonna kill us, or either the police are gonna kill us,”. Airs weekdays at 10AM on 93.9 FM and AM 820. 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