Mayoral Candidate Maya Wiley: I Won’t Take Bullying from NYPD

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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It’s safe to say that the people of New York City are ready for a new mayor, and certainly one who isn’t Bill deBlasio. Sure, he gave the city universal pre-K but had some faux paus over the years, most recently in 2020, when he was accused of antisemitism for a tweet addressed to the Hasidic Jewish community over social distancing rules during COVID and also (this one was big) for not standing up to the NYPD for harassing citizens during the George Floyd riots this summer. One of the many candidates stepping up to take his place is Maya Wiley, an activist, professor and veteran of City Hall, who says she will handle things much differently if she becomes the next mayor of New York City. To start, she doesn’t think there should have ever been a curfew during the protests, she tells co-host Molly Jong-Fast, producer Jesse Cannon and Beast editor Harry Siegel in this members-only episode of the New Abnormal. (“You can not have a control and containment model of policing that sees who are, who are expressing first amendment rights as the enemy.”) She also made it clear that she won’t bow down to bullying from police unions like many believe deBlasio did. “[The NYPD] works for us. You're public servants,” she says. “We're going to put the public back in public safety. And what I mean by that is civilian oversight are the rules of the road. Of the priorities of policing, we are going to right-size it, because it does not make any sense to have police doing functions that other experts should be doing like mental health crisis response.” When it comes to the city’s economy, she plans to take a Depression-era approach: investing in “communities that have been hard hit by COVID.” Plus! Molly asks her about Cuomo’s allegations (“There has never been any change worth fighting for where you didn't have someone who was difficult to work with.)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another members only beast inside episode of the Daily Beast the new abnormal we thank you so much for being here today
0:08.2	We have a very special guest with New York City mayoral candidate Maya Wiley
0:12.5	Maya is a lawyer professor and civil rights activist who served as the board chair of the New York City
0:18.0	Civilian complaint review board as well as being counseled in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
0:22.5	So we talked to her today about the questions we wanted to hear as citizens of New York and today
0:27.2	We are joined by Harry Seagull who's the senior editor at the Daily Beast
0:30.8	So my first question for you is I love New York and I have been here this whole time and I'm a diehard
0:37.5	But it feels like I'm in the minority and I'm curious to know what's your plan to save us no pressure
0:48.0	Well, first of all let me just start by saying Molly
0:50.8	You are not in the minority. Okay good
0:53.4	You are not and I like all kinds of people from all over the city and there is just you know
0:59.1	New Yorkers want to go and get tough New Yorkers get tougher. So while there's a lot of chatter
1:04.0	You know it tends to come from some some very vocal few versus the many and so a big part of recovery from my
1:12.3	standpoint from what we've put out as a campaign is
1:16.0	Investing in New York coming back stimulating the economy but doing it in a way that
1:21.0	Utilizes what we have and that does it in a way that invests in communities that have been hard hit by COVID
1:29.2	So New Deal New York which is exactly what it sounds like it is modeled on the principles of the New Deal that got us out of the great depression
1:38.5	But it is spending 10 billion dollars to build things we need to fix things that need fixing that both
1:47.1	Help communities solve problems, but does it in a way that creates a hundred thousand new
1:53.0	Jobs which we desperately need and focusing that's everything from things like affordable housing
1:59.8	That's things like creating in the context of a green new deal
2:03.9	You know resiliency to flooding where we need it. It's things like creating community centers or childcare
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