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Eric Adams: “Outside agitators go in, they riled up the crowd, they start…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Address Security Measures Amid Protests and International Tensions in New York City

Published | Video Starts at 14:23

And so get out of your mind that an outside agitator must be the numerical majority of the people who are participating. Outside agitators go in, they riled up the crowd, they start throwing items at the police. They start doing things to get the police aggravated. They use fire bombs to burn cars. They. We saw that during the BLM movement. That's what an outside agitator is. (14:23–14:30)

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Asserts that outside agitators incite crowds and throw items at police during protests.

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