{"id":1525059,"date":"2022-06-21T11:49:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T15:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525059"},"modified":"2022-06-21T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T15:49:36","slug":"ny-dem-called-for-defunding-police-she-had-moved-to-upscale-manhattan-from-crime-ridden-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-dem-called-for-defunding-police-she-had-moved-to-upscale-manhattan-from-crime-ridden-harlem\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Dem Called For Defunding Police. She Had Moved To Upscale Manhattan From Crime-Ridden Harlem."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-dem-called-for-defunding-police-she-had-moved-to-upscale-manhattan-from-crime-ridden-harlem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525059&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A leftist New York state Democrat assemblywoman now running for Congress who has urged defunding police found it convenient in the past to move out from her crime-ridden neighborhood in Harlem to a posh a Manhattan neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>During her 2016 campaign to replace Sheldon Silver in the New York State Assembly, Yuh-Line Niou <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelodownny.com\/leslog\/2016\/04\/our-interview-with-assembly-candidate-yuh-line-niou.html\">admitted<\/a>, \u201cI actually was robbed where I was living in Harlem. My boyfriend at the time, my fiance (now), didn\u2019t think I was safe up there, so he told me to move in, and so that\u2019s how I moved to the financial district with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>\u201cI\u00a0watched a girl get raped on a pile of garbage, right across the street from the projects. that\u2019s where I was living,\u201d Niou, who has represented the 65th District and now is vying for a seat in New York\u2019s 10th Congressional District against former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Rep. Mondaire Jones, continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was living at 106th (street) and 1st avenue. I was calling police and yelling at him through my window\u2026 another time I watched this guy slam a girl\u2019s head into \u2013 she was at an ATM \u2013 just slam it right into an ATM machine and grab her money and run. I was trying to get the police to go after him, and they just took their time. So these are all incidents that kind of led to me moving down to the financial district and moving in with my partner,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New from me: <\/p>\n<p>Progessive Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, running for an open BK-Manhattan House seat, said in 2016 she first moved to the district she is seeking to represent on the federal level because of &#8220;safety issues&#8221; near &#8220;the projects&#8221; in Harlem. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uZdgw9fWZy\">https:\/\/t.co\/uZdgw9fWZy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Raskin (@samraskinz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samraskinz\/status\/1539217553700048896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Niou\u2019s current position on the police reads like this, from her <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200622205831\/https:\/www.nioufornewyork.com\/issues\">campaign website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>She believes that we are long overdue for police reform in this country and that we need to defund millions from the police in order to put critical funding back into our social services, education, and housing. Incident after incident of police brutality and institutional racism has eroded the trust between law enforcement and communities of color and Yuh-Line is committed to reform to begin rebuilding that trust.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNiou\u2019s bid to represent the newly configured Lower Manhattan-Brooklyn House seat has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nioufornewyork.com\/endorsements\">earned endorsements<\/a>\u00a0from \u2018Sex and the City\u2019 star and former gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, left-wing group New York Communities for Change and state Sen. Julia Salazar (D-Bushwick), among others,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/21\/yuh-line-niou-house-wannabe-who-preaches-cop-defund-fled-from-harlem\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=NYPTwitter\">The New York Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Assemblywoman Inez Dickens, who since 2006 has represented some areas of Harlem, ripped Niou, snapping, \u201cYou move out of the neighborhood\u00a0because you say it\u2019s unsafe, then you say \u2018defund the police?\u2019 You turn around and desert the community \u2014 and then say you don\u2019t need the police?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s hypocritical,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t leave my community, and there are times when I feel unsafe,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier this year, the state legislator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/02\/ny-assemblywoman-yuh-line-niou-slammed-for-anti-police-tweet\/\">faced backlash for\u00a0calling a large group of cops entering a subway station<\/a>\u00a0following a funeral for<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/28\/jason-rivera-given-heros-farewell-at-st-patricks-cathedral\/\">\u00a0slain NYPD Officer\u00a0Jason Rivera<\/a>\u00a0a \u2018frightening show of intimidation,\u2019\u00a0and\u00a0liking a tweet comparing the throng of officers to Nazis,\u201d the Post added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leftist New York state Democrat assemblywoman now running for Congress who has urged defunding police found it convenient in the past to move out from her crime-ridden neighborhood in Harlem to a posh a Manhattan neighborhood. During her 2016 campaign to replace Sheldon Silver in the New York State Assembly, Yuh-Line Niou admitted, \u201cI &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1525061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}