[ANT] New comment on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio : If Trump does....

Erin Burnett has left a new comment on your post "New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio : If Trump does...":

NYPD to crack down on mass gatherings in parks

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced they will be cracking down on large gatherings that linger in city parks, to prevent COVID-19 exposure.

The order comes after reports of people interacting too closely in parks over the weekend, despite a shelter-in-place order by the mayor. Cops will be in cars, bikes and other vehicles with a speaker, alerting parkgoers not to linger, and if crowds get too big, the officers will break them up, according to de Blasio and Shea.

The mayor said they will run this policy for a week, and reassess their procedures.

"If we feel people aren't following the rules ... we will consider shutting [parks] down," he warned.

As of Sunday morning, New York City had 9,654 confirmed coronavirus cases, de Blasio said.

Earlier in the day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked the mayor to come up with a plan to reduce the density in parks and suggested that the city close certain streets to vehicular traffic and allow pedestrians.

De Blasio said he is mulling over closing the streets and will codify their plans in the next 24 hours, but warned that such a plan would require a gradual phase-in and strict police enforcement.

"If you put barriers at the end of a block and everyone comes out like it's normal, we can't have that," the mayor said.

Unsubscribe from comment emails for this blog.



Posted by Erin Burnett to ANT at March 22, 2020 at 6:43 PM