Internet backs Mayor Eric Adams as he rebukes criminal defense lawyer for downplaying Jonathan Diller’s murder as ‘rare occurrence’

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK: New York City Mayor Eric Adams brutally criticized a criminal defense lawyer for dismissing the murder of police officer Jonathan Diller as a "rare occurrence" and instead focusing on cops who had "killed" citizens.

When Olayemi Olurin, an anti-cop "abolitionist thinker", attempted to criticize Eric Adams for not being more concerned about alleged police brutality, the mayor snapped at her on Friday morning, March 29, on iHeartMedia's ‘The Breakfast Club.’

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Hosted by Charlamagne Tha God and DJ Envy, the discussion on the radio show descended into hostility when Olurin dubbed Mayor Adams a "fearmonger" while she defended the contentious cashless bail law, contending that the majority of released offenders don't get arrested again.

“I’m not talking about bail,” Adams retaliated.

“In the same breath that you want to sensationalize, we want to highlight and point out how an officer was killed the other day, which is a rare occurrence across the United States but let alone in New York, New York police officers have killed at least seven people this year, including a 19-year-old,” Olurin argued.

Olurin was speaking of a 19-year-old man who was having a "mental crisis" and was shot and killed by NYPD officers recently after he allegedly charged at them while inside a Queens apartment, brandishing a pair of scissors.

Adams was surprised that Olurin downplayed Diller's death and instantly attempted to silence her.

“I’m not going to dismiss the loss of a life of an innocent person that wears a uniform,” Adams asserted.

“But you do the 31 people that died at Rikers,” Olurin shot back.

This year, three people have died at the Rikers Island prison complex, compared to 25 in the previous two years, per the New York Post.

Mayor Eric Adams then urged that Olurin retract what could be viewed as an inappropriate comment on her part about Officer Diller's tragic murder during a traffic stop in Queens on Monday evening, allegedly by 34-year-old career criminal Guy Rivera.

“I don’t want to take you out of context and I don’t want people to all of a sudden criticize that you’re being dismissive of a young man being shot and killed,” the Democrat Mayor of New York City claimed.

However, the criminal defense lawyer Olurin, refused to back down.

“Mayor Adams, that’s not gonna work on me,” Olurin remarked.

Adams replied, “Listen, I’m not trying to work anything on you. I lost a member of the police department. The same way I go to see a mother of an 11-month-old baby that was shot in the head when I first became mayor and I sat in the hospital with her, the same way I go visit these mothers that lose their children to gun violence, I go see them.”

"Now, do you do that?" he questioned his critic.

Olurin, a Legal Aid attorney, expressed her concern that the mayor has not visited the families of inmates who have died while in custody at Rikers Island.

Olurin stated that she has represented numerous defendants who were incarcerated at the notorious correctional facility.

Mayor Adams asked, “You went to visit the family member of a slain officer?”

When Olurin responded in the negative, Adams retorted, “Of course you didn’t.”

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Olurin chastised Adams at another point in the heated on-air discussion for going over, "repeatedly that the subways are dangerous, that New York is dangerous; you complain about crime relentlessly."

Adams shot back, arguing that commuters have told him that they feel safer on the subways when there are more uniformed officers present there.

“Now you may say, ‘Eric, I don’t want to see a visible presence of uniformed officers.’ And that’s cool. That’s not what the overwhelming number of New Yorkers are saying,” he contended.

During the wide-ranging and often argumentative discussion, the topic of the migrant crisis plaguing the city was addressed.

Mayor Eric Adams defended his administration’s decision to offer prepaid debit cards to asylum seekers to purchase food.

This initiative was aimed at saving funds for the city, given the Federal Government’s reluctance to provide the necessary funds to support the migrants.

The Mayor maintained that his hands were tied, as he did not have the authority to turn away migrants, deny them food and housing, or deport them to their home countries.

“People got a right to be pissed off,” Adams said in conclusion regarding the raging issue.

Internet hails Eric Adams for pushing back at Olurin’s case against him

People on X lauded the Democrat Mayor of the Big Apple for being very clear in thought and putting forward his point of view on each and every accusation or allegation cast on him by the combative criminal defense lawyer.

One X user remarked: “@NYCMayor 100% right."

Another user said: "Here's to hoping @NYCMayor takes the actions needed to take the city back to the era of @RudyGiuliani and @MikeBloomberg."

Another user wrote: "Karma will visit her…"

One user claimed: "Her thinking is the broader picture of what these new progressives DAs , AG, and City Council members all believe."

Another X user asked: "What planet is she living on?"

Finally, this user tweeted: "Until it happens someone she knows and loves. Then it won’t be a rare occurrence!!"

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