NYC mayor weighs in on alleged racist harassment of journalist
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has weighed in after a journalist alleged he and his family were the victims of racist harassment on Sunday.
Michael Luo, a reporter for The New York Times, had tweeted earlier Sunday that a woman verbally accosted him in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan. “Well dressed woman on Upper East Side, annoyed by our stroller, yells: ‘Go back to China…go back to your f---ing country.’ #This is 2016”
Luo added that his child had been disturbed by the confrontation, and said that when he ran up to confront the woman, she threatened to call the police.
De Blasio, a progressive Democrat, then responded on Twitter that “EVERYONE belongs in NYC” and that racist harassment it unacceptable.
Luo then thanked the mayor for his response.