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[[File:Eric Adams Assata Shakur.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Adams swears in police commissioner in front of a mural featuring convicted cop-killer [[Assata Shakur]].<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10315407/NYPDs-female-commissioner-makes-debut-mural-depicting-black-revolutionaries.html</ref>]]

[[File:Eric Adams Assata Shakur.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Adams swears in police commissioner in front of a mural featuring convicted cop-killer [[Assata Shakur]].<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10315407/NYPDs-female-commissioner-makes-debut-mural-depicting-black-revolutionaries.html</ref>]]

'''Eric Leroy Adams''' was elected mayor of [[New York City]] as a [[Democrat]]. The last [[Republican]] elected mayor of New York in response to a Democrat mega-[[crime]] wave was in 1994.

'''Eric Leroy Adams''' was elected mayor of [[New York City]] as a [[Democrat]] in 2021. The last [[Republican]] elected mayor of New York in response to a Democrat mega-[[crime]] wave was in 1993.

Adams is a retired police captain and Brooklyn borough president.  In the 2021 New York City Democrat mayoral primary, Adams allegeldy dismissed calls to [[defund the police]].<ref>https://nationworldnews.com/progressives-urgent-question-how-to-win-over-voters-of-color/</ref>

Adams is a retired police captain and Brooklyn borough president.  In the 2021 New York City Democrat mayoral primary, Adams allegeldy dismissed calls to [[defund the police]].<ref>https://nationworldnews.com/progressives-urgent-question-how-to-win-over-voters-of-color/</ref>