Ex-NYPD boss calls ‘lunatic’ Black Lives Matter protesters ‘brats’ and says they ‘should’ve been dealt with by parents’
AN ex-NYPD boss derided "lunatic" Black Lives Matter protesters, describing them as "brats who weren’t dealt with by their parents."
Former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik slammed the behavior of the demonstrators in the Big Apple on Thursday.
Most of the protests have been peaceful but between protesters and police since Floyd's police custody death in on May 25.
Speaking to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Kerik condemned the vandalism and graffiti messages he has seen on the city's streets in recent weeks.
“What is a good cop? A dead cop. All of these things. They are written all over New York City by these nasty, disrespectful — I don’t know what else to call them besides brats who weren’t dealt with by their parents when they were younger,” Kerik raged.
“And they’re out there, anarchists, they are destroying the city. They were part of the arson, the devastation. They are ."
The NYC Council approved calls to – after 60 percent of residents rejected these funding reforms, a Siena College poll revealed.
Forty-seven percent of people living in NYC opposed cutting funds but the racial divide was evident, reported the .
The majority of whites participants (67 percent) were against defunding the cops, while more than twice as many blacks supported the idea with 54 percent in favor of it, versus 27 percent against it.
But Kerik claimed the Democratic mayor was "emboldening" demonstrators, who are still camped out across from One Police Plaza in City Hall Park.
The former head of the NYPD also condemned as “a rallying point for these lunatics: it’s going to endanger the president of the United States, his family and people that live in" Trump Tower.
"[It's happening] all over the country where these Democratic-run cities by these radical leftists, these lunatic mayors and governors have allowed this stuff to ferment," he continued.
Kerik, a close ally of 's lawyer – and the former NYC mayor – , was granted a full pardon by the President in February for eight felony convictions.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of tax fraud, one count of making a false statement on a loan application, and five counts of making false statements to the Feds while being vetted for senior posts in 2010.
Some of these charges related to apartment renovations done on Kerik's Riverdale apartment by a construction firm with supposed organized crime links, reports say.
This week, Kerik touted a conspiracy theory that donations to the BLM movement went to the Democratic Party “in the hundreds of millions of dollars."
He said this allegedly occurred "in cities with the highest murder rate, the most violent crime rate and where there is systemic slaughter of black men and women in numbers that only compare to a war zone in Iraq.”
“So you have to wonder, is it intentional?” Kerik asked. “What’s going on? Why is de Blasio letting the city implode? It’s got to be intentional. He defies logic. He defies common sense.
"He defies good sound management. Everything he’s doing is an intentional attempt to destroy the city of New York and these other cities around the country are going just like it.”
Trump has also slammed the "antagonizing" murals as "symbols of hate" – but disagree.
Jon Souza of Thrive Collective, a local organization, was working on the BLM mural on Centre Street in downtown Manhattan on Thursday, which he said will be completed today.
The slogan is painted on the street outside the courthouse, near the New York City Department (NYPD) headquarters, where just two days ago, at One Police Plaza.
Regarding Trump's Twitter statements about the murals, Souza said that "you have to take it with a grain of salt."
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"I think what's happening now there might be some differences of opinion," he told The Sun. "Now, this is what everybody needs: we all need our own form of art therapy.
"After , we've all kind of gone through our own collective trauma, I think that art is one of the best ways to heal, to bring people together."
Souza said these larger-than-life messages are a way to get a dialogue going about recent events and "not just putting an opinion out to argue" before Kerik's blistering rant on Fox News.