Mayor Adams clashes with ‘woke’ defense lawyer who downplays Officer Diller’s murder

Mayor Eric Adams took aim at a woke criminal defense lawyer who downplayed the murder of Police Officer Jonathan Diller as a “rare occurrence” — and instead focused on cops who have “killed” citizens.

Olayemi Olurin, a self-described “movement” lawyer and “abolitionist thinker,” appeared with Adams on iHeartMedia’s “The Breakfast Club” with hosts Charlamagne Tha God and DJ Envy in a segment that aired on Friday morning.

Olurin began by labeling Adams a “fearmonger” — as she defended the controversial cashless bail law, arguing that most freed defendants aren’t rearrested.

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[somethingwitha]

More bad-faith reporting from the NY Post via soundbites that have no context.

[kpacshakur]

The title of this video lets me know everything I need to know and the problem when politicians clearly have the media in their back pocket…

[freeLuigiMangione]

I love how challenging people in power is considered woke.

[Bienville]

She was making a much larger and specific point than what’s said here in 30 seconds, but the NY Post knows what it takes to make the right-wingers wet, so I’ll give them that.

[ejacks]

We really are at a bad place in America when aggressively challenging a public official is considered “woke”. I don’t care if the public official is Dem/Rep. conservative or liberal. The public especially the media needs to keep them honest by asking all the tough questions. Something corporate content media no longer does.

[integratedboxingsystem]

You all should go watch the interview for yourself instead of relying on what the bias Post has to say. She held his feet to the fire and gave him hard questions on his failures as a mayor. This is what all political pundits should do. This is the way to keep our politicians honest and on track. The post should try this approach when it comes to politicians on the right instead of constantly coddling them.

[kidalex]

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[SasquatchAtTheSpaceDisco]

She's right, and she absolutely crushed him in this debate. Is this the best you can do?

[toneriggz]

Adams thought he was walking into Shuck & Jive Hour with the Breakfast Club. They unleashed a pitbull on him. He was not ready. I can only imagine the cursing he did to his staff after this.

[BonBonWasHere]

Lies. She did not play down the death of a police officer nor did she say police were not needed. You people have serious issues

[jae.c.r]

This headline is irresponsible and clearly biased.

[BonBonWasHere]

Reading these racist comments tells me all I need to know about this post

[Lonnielonni]

The people in these comments aren't buying your BS NYP. Olay is 100% correct about Eric Adams and New Yorkers Recognize it. We don't need media organizations like yours to cause harm to our community and instill in our citizens the belief that it is improper to criticize and question someone who is meant to represent our city. We don't need media organizations that work to shape public opinion and manipulate public opinion by inciting fear and supporting a police state.

[WestBaltimoreEva]

There was no downplaying she wasn't being dismissive she made a great point maybe watch the whole interview before commenting on someone's character

[Nicholesky]

A 23 second snippet? Creating the narrative…

[jaymes]

She was right. That's why they can only show 30 seconds. She owned him the whole time.

[xixtinthegreat]

The post that nobody in the City reads, now on YouTube coping hard and defending the one-term mayor

[NicoleReign]

We see you New York Post 😂 Congrats on the backfire.

[Alexisrichardson]

This title and these racist says it all she didn’t downplay a death . But if she did it’s equivalent to way y’all downplay George, Freddie , briana, Sandra, kori the list continues its exponential compared to one officer being killed . A job that says in fine print ur putting ur life in the line . Vs these innocent harmless, unarmed victims

[blackguy]

New York Post is disgusting, I should actually write the true headline