Eric Adams, Ex-Police Captain, Wins NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary After Running on Crime as #1 Issue

The next mayor of New York City will likely be the Brooklyn borough president and former police officer Eric Adams, according to a newly released tally in the Democratic primary race which accounts for most absentee ballots. Adams would be the city's second Black mayor and ran to the right of his party, promising to tackle crime. Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez has covered Adams for three decades and says Adams captured the votes of people concerned about an increase in gun violence and crime, which Gonzalez suspects stems from police standing down" in response to the movement to defund them.