[Councilman Jumaane] Williams, a freshman Democrat from Brooklyn, said he and others have repeatedly called for meetings with Bloomberg and NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly, but have been rebuffed.
“If you don’t have it, you cannot blame a city who feels under siege with whatever way they have to react to get the respect that we deserve,” he said.
Later he told reporters, ”We can’t blame people for reacting however they’re going to react when our leaders won’t even acknowledge there’s a problem.”
I asked him to elaborate, and he said, “There’s only but so much disrespect and feeling, you know, like someone is in your community to hurt you and harm you and you’re paying these people to do it.”
