New York City Elected Eric Adams, from the Democratic Party, as its new mayor on Tuesday (2). Adams, 61, will be the second black man in charge of the city (the first was David Norman Dinkins in the early 1990s).
Eric Adams on October 26, 2021 — Photo: Eduardo Muoz
He was born in the Brooklyn district and grew up in the Queens area. She was raised only by her mother, who was a cook and housekeeper (the next mayor claims she was from the union). Adams’ mother died in early 2021, but it took her months to reveal the fact.
New York Mayor Eric Adams holds a photo of his mother on voting day – Photo: Reuters / Andrew Kelly
The politician says he grew up in fear that his family would lose their home, but according to The New York Times, it’s difficult to test whether his account of his teenage years is true.
He reports that at the age of 15 there was a turning point in his life: he and his older brother were arrested for trespassing on private property and beaten up in police custody.
According to The New York Times, some of the accounts Adams made about his arrest are; He has already claimed that he and his brother broke into the house of a prostitute to whom they owed money; In another version, the woman was not a prostitute, but an exotic dancer, to whom they both owed money. The paper reports that the next mayor of New York tells several stories with variations.
Adams claims that his arrest at the age of 15 made him want to become a cop in order to change corporations.
He worked in the police for 22 years. In 2006, he stopped being a police officer. At the time, he was already an activist with a history—in 1995, he formed a group within the corporation known as the 100 Blacks in Police. The group had racial justice as its agenda.
From the late 1990s, he went to college and rose through the ranks within the police force.
At the time, he became a member of the Republican Party – today, he claims it was a protest against the leader of the Democratic Party in the late 1990s.
In 2007, he was elected a senator from the state of New York (in some US states, the state legislature is bicameral).
After that, he became the deputy mayor of the Brooklyn area.
The next mayor of New York is also a vegetarian. He claims he has adopted a meat-free diet since being diagnosed as a diabetic in 2016 and that dietary changes and exercise routines meant the disease was not apparent.
Eric Adams during a commemoration of his victory in the New York mayoral election on November 2, 2021 – Photo: Eugene Gologursky / AFP
Adams claims that he forms long-term political relationships. In the state Senate, he supported 20 bills that became law.
He became involved in discussions about New York police policy, which addressed black and Latino men in a way that was interpreted as discriminatory.
During his years in the state legislature, he was criticized for engaging with lobbyists—he was also criticized for raising funds for the campaign among New York’s wealthy.
final moments of the campaign
In the final days of the campaign, the new mayor of New York argued twice on television with his rival, Curtis Sliva of the Republican Party.
Sliva accused Adams of not meeting with police unions, saying Democrats preferred meeting with former gang leaders in the city to talk about fighting crime and the need for a mandatory Covid-19 vaccine for public officials. criticized.
The police union had said that 10,000 of the city’s 35,000 agents would be taken off the streets with mandatory vaccination against COVID-19. But, according to “The Washington Post”, Measures Affected Only 34 Police Officers.
