Mayor Adams was notably absent at a press conference for Christina Yuna Lee, an Asian American woman who was stabbed to death in her apartment. Instead, Adams sent a representative from and released a statement describing the incident as “horrific.”
In lieu of personally appearing in Chinatown, Adams sent a representative from his office and released a statement in which he described the incident as “horrific” and said he stood with the Asian community.
“It was a three-line response,” she said, adding that Adams had failed in the statement to sufficiently acknowledge the brutality of the killing and the fact that the community has been targeted since the start of the pandemic. The mayor added that the NYPD and his office have multiple teams focused on hate crimes, and was now looking into forming an emergency task force to address the intersection of public safety, mental health and homelessness.
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