Man, GTEFOHWTBS https://twitter.com/rudygiuliani/status/1331101258741145601">https://twitter.com/rudygiuli...
Dinkins was elected in November 89. This is the end of the year of the Central Park jogger and Yusuf Hawkins& #39; murder. Redial tension was thick, heavy in the city. Also the same year as Do the Right Thing& #39;s release, which was prophetic for the year.
Even though Dinkens increased the police force, the NYPD took his entire election as an attack on them. And Giuliani whipped them into a frenzy against him. (For the record, NYPD never really fucks with any mayor except Rudy)
In 1991, a three day riot raged in Crown Heights, triggered 7 year old Gavin Cato was hit by a car driven by a Jewish man, then died after not being taken to a hospital quickly enough. A Jewish student, Yankel Rosenbaum, was stabbed in retaliation. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/crown-heights-twenty-years-after-the-riots">https://www.newyorker.com/news/news...
Dinkins was found at fault for the lack of proper response to the riots, although the noted fault was him trusting top police brass& #39;s reports instead of making independent calls on how to respond.
Giuliani said he let the riots go on purpose because he was a Black Nationalist.
In 1992, riots broke out in my current Washington Heights neighborhod after 23-year old Jose Garcia was chased down and shot by a police officer. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/07/nyregion/angered-by-police-killing-a-neighborhood-erupts.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/0...
This is one block over from my house.
Dinkins paid for Garcia& #39;s funeral, which the PD saw as chosing sides. He then announced plans to organize a citizen complaint review board. And that& #39;s when Giuliani led 10K off duty officers to City Hall... https://youtu.be/faeW6Z3hQ2w ">https://youtu.be/faeW6Z3hQ...
Off duty officers terrorized and intimidated Black City Council members, blocked the Brooklyn Bridge and side streets, and the 350 cops on duty let them rock.

This riot was basically a Giuliani campaign event.

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/rudys-racist-rants-nypd-history-lesson">https://www.cato.org/publicati...
Giuliani& #39;s own team suggested later that he should condemn the behavior at the protests to distance himself since he was clearly perceived as a ringleader.
He ignored it. And in 93 he won the election. CLOSE, but he won.
And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is the foundation of why we don& #39;t fuck with Rudy, and rolled our eyes to the point of getting headaches with the "America& #39;s Mayor" shit, because he was exactly the kind of mayor you can imagine from this and his TV rants.
Racial tension* WHAT IS MY PHONE DOING?!
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