NYC Mayor Adams Asked Point Blank For Update On Midtown Manhattan Shooting

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was asked about last week's deadly shooting in Midtown Manhattan.

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00:00Hello, Mr. Mayor. How are you, Monica?

00:02I have a question. In regards to the statistics that you declared for July,

00:08what specific steps are being taken to make sure that the incident that happened last week,

00:13tragic but isolated, will not undermine those accomplishments of NYPD?

00:19And also the second question, if I may, is do you have any updates about the investigation

00:24with regards to that shooting that occurred last week?

00:27And the commissioner can respond to that.

00:30And we have been asked several times, what can we do to stop a shooting like that?

00:40Over and over again, we've been asked that question.

00:43And let's be clear what happened here.

00:45We had a deranged person who drove across the country with an automatic weapon with one intention,

00:57and that was to create death and destruction.

01:02That was his goal. That was his mission.

01:05And when you have gun laws outside our country, outside our city and state,

01:12that makes it readily and easy to possess those types of weapons,

01:18it makes cities like New York, where we don't manufacture these weapons,

01:24it makes it difficult for us.

01:27But we have stepped up to the challenge.

01:29We removed close to 23,000 illegal guns off our streets, 3,100 this year alone.

01:37But more than that, any law enforcement expert would tell you that when you have a ready, willing, and able person

01:48who wants to bring about intentional destruction,

01:50what you must do is try to prevent, but exterminate and terminate the threat as quickly as possible.

02:01That's what SRG and our other law enforcement officers did.

02:07While people were running out of the building, those officers were running in the building.

02:13While they knew there was a known shooter, and the potential that there was an incendiary device,

02:20in spite of that, they went in.

02:22They went in, did a floor-by-floor search.

02:25Routing management did what was right by creating active shooter's drills.

02:31They had a safe space in the building that doubled as a restroom.

02:36And so you saw all the pieces of civilians and law enforcement coming together to quickly terminate the threat.

02:46When you looked at the videos, you saw that this individual, he was intentional on his action.

02:53And we did what we're supposed to do.

02:56Now it's time for the federal government to step up and get these automatic weapons of this magnitude

03:01that belonged on a battlefield and not in our cities.

03:07We're going to continue to do that.

03:09Any updates on the investigation?