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Eric Adams: “We don't want lifeguards. We want them to save swarmies. It…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Eric Adams Discusses New York City's Safety, Economic Vision, and Upcoming Mayoral Election

Published | Video Starts at 08:07

Do you think that there could be increased public safety training for lifeguards to handle those things. Do you see any growth in that area? Yeah, We don't want lifeguards. We want them to save swarmies. It is the job of the police and the pet workers, park enforcement officers to do the keep this public safety part of it. We don't want. We don't want to ever have lifeguards put themselves in harm's way. So we do a proper deployment of police, a proper deployment of PEP officers. (08:07–08:22)

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Asserts that public safety at pools and parks is the responsibility of police and park enforcement officers, not lifeguards.

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