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NEW YORK - A Black Lives Matter leader in New York is vowing "riots" and "bloodshed" if Mayor-elect Eric Adams reinstates the NYPD's anti-crime unit.
Hawk Newsome, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, made the threats following a heated meeting with Adams at Brooklyn Borough Hall.
"If they think they are going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are going to take to the streets again. There will be riots. There will be fire and there will be bloodshed," Newsome said after the meeting. "There's no way we're going to let some Gestapos come in here and harm our people. We pray for peace, but Black opportunities prepare for the worst."