{"id":48295,"date":"2016-07-16T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T15:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48295"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:36:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:36:44","slug":"mayor-de-blasio-says-his-exemplary-son-dante-follows-the-law-but-fears-police-brutality-black-lives-matter-as-an-idea-is-so-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48295","title":{"rendered":"Mayor de Blasio says his &#8216;exemplary&#8217; son Dante follows the law, but fears police brutality: &#8216;Black Lives Matter as an idea is so important&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/mayor-de-blasio-exemplary-son-dante-fears-police-brutality-article-1.2712988\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Mayor de Blasio says his &#8216;exemplary&#8217; son Dante follows the law, but fears police brutality: &#8216;Black Lives Matter as an idea is so important&#8217;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Daily News<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jfermino\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jennifer Fermino<\/strong><\/a>, City Hall Bureau Chief<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/mayor-de-blasio-exemplary-son-dante-fears-police-brutality-article-1.2712988\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2712986.1468599523!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_1200\/mayor16n-2-web.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_de_Blasio\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor de Blasio<\/a> said he finds it \u201cintolerable\u201d when protesters lodge \u201cvile\u201d insults at cops, but also defended the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Lives_Matter\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter<\/a> movement as \u201cnecessary.\u201d (<em>KEN MURRAY\/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<\/em>)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Dante de Blasio is an \u201cexemplary\u201d teen who never gets in trouble &#8211; but even he is scared of being a victim of police violence, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_de_Blasio\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor de Blasio<\/a> said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor, speaking about race matters on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/bl\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Lehrer show on WNYC<\/a>, spoke openly about his son after an African-American <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queens\" target=\"_blank\">Queens<\/a> grandmother called in to complain that she was afraid \u201cracist\u201d cops would hurt her teenaged grandsons.<\/p>\n<p>His comments immediately touched a nerve with the Police Benevolent Association, who blasted him for not vigoriously defending the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City_Police_Department\" target=\"_blank\">NYPD<\/a> against the woman\u2019s charges&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/mayor-de-blasio-exemplary-son-dante-fears-police-brutality-article-1.2712988\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor de Blasio says his &#8216;exemplary&#8217; son Dante follows the law, but fears police brutality: &#8216;Black Lives Matter as an idea is so important&#8217; The New York Daily News 2016-07-15 Jennifer Fermino, City Hall Bureau Chief Mayor de Blasio said he finds it \u201cintolerable\u201d when protesters lodge \u201cvile\u201d insults at cops, but also defended the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,26,23674,20],"tags":[15381,16179,21272,2711,596,1463,24505,18849],"class_list":["post-48295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-dante-de-blasio","tag-jennifer-fermino","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-pat-lynch","tag-the-new-york-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48296,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48295\/revisions\/48296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}