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Eric Adams: “We were having thousands of people who were marching every…”

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Conversations with Coleman: Eric Adams on Policing, Politics, and New York City's Future

Published | Video Starts at 07:37

He had a ready made army. There were a large number of people who were already on our college campuses angry, protesting with all sorts of radicalizing ideas that were put inside them. We were having thousands of people who were marching every day in our streets, just about. We had almost 4,000 marches in the city over the Palestine, Palestinian and the Israeli issue. Then you had the anti Trump energy that was real. So you had the intersectionality of three major events that people were already in the streets. (07:37–07:50)

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