New Yorkers known as on Gov. Kathy Hochul to take away Mayor Eric Adams from workplace at a rally in Decrease Manhattan on Feb. 16, 2025.
Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
On the identical day Mayor Eric Adams insisted he isn’t going anyplace, scores of protesters marched in Decrease Manhattan Sunday demanding that Gov. Kathy Hochul use her govt energy to take away the embattled mayor from energy.
Some 200 demonstrators from a coalition of activist teams — together with Meals & Water Watch, New York Communities for Change, Make the Street New York, Rise and Resist, and Jews For Racial and Financial Justice — gathered for the rally on a wet Feb. 16 beneath the arch subsequent to the David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Constructing. They joined the calls of a rising variety of Democratic political leaders who’ve been pressuring Hochul to provide Adams the boot after President Trump’s Justice Division filed a movement to dismiss the five-count prison indictment in opposition to Hizzoner “without prejudice,” fearing that he would do Trump’s bidding in trade for dropping the fees.
The cooperation, Democratic leaders and activists concern, will consequence within the mass deportation of New Yorkers and their households. Alícia Nascimento, political director for New York Communities for Change, defined to the press that the group held the emergency rally as a result of they believed Adams was being “held hostage” by President Trump.
“The Mayor essentially has a quid pro quo with the President that if he were able to dismiss the corruption charges, which he never went to trial [for],” Nascimento stated, “then ICE would have reign over our city, and the federal government would be able to do whatever it wanted in a sanctuary city.”
Some 200 demonstrators on Sunday oined the calls of a rising variety of Democratic political leaders who’ve been pressuring Hochul to provide Adams the boot after President Trump’s Justice Division filed a movement to dismiss the five-count prison indictment in opposition to Hizzoner “without prejudice,” fearing that he would do Trump’s bidding in trade for dropping the fees.Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
Protesters questioned Mayor Adams’ means to steer the most important metropolis within the nation, particularly after U.S. Legal professional Danielle Sassoon of the Southern District of New York (SDNY) resigned and, in an eight-page letter, accused the mayor’s lawyer’s of providing a “quid pro quo” to the Trump Justice Division, promising cooperation on the immigration crackdown in trade for dropping the fees.
Whereas Adams insists he did nothing incorrect and denies slicing a cope with the White Home to have the case dropped, simply final Friday, Adams appeared alongside Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, in a dwell interview on FOX & Buddies. Homan warned that he can be “up [Adams] butt” if he didn’t adjust to Trump’s immigration crackdown.
At a gathering between the pair a day prior, Adams promised Homan he would permit Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers to function on Rikers Island. Two weeks in the past, Mayor Adams issued a memo to migrant shelter contractors, faculties, and hospitals, stating that if staff felt threatened, they might permit brokers of the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to enter migrant shelters with no judicial warrant — which might quantity to a violation of New York Metropolis’s Sanctuary Legal guidelines.
Protesters questioned Mayor Adams’ means to steer the most important metropolis within the nation, particularly after U.S. Legal professional Danielle Sassoon of the Southern District of New York (SDNY) resigned and, in an eight-page letter, accused the mayor’s lawyer’s of providing a “quid pro quo” to the Trump Justice Division, promising cooperation on the immigration crackdown in trade for dropping the fees.Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann 
Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann 
Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
Earlier than the gang of about 200 marched to the US Federal Court docket Home on Sunday, Assemblymember Harvey Epstein (D-Manhattan) identified that New York Metropolis immigrants are afraid to ship their youngsters to highschool or go to the hospital due to the memo the Mayor issued a couple of weeks in the past.
“That is not the New York we believe in. The mayor has to leave, and if he doesn’t decide to resign, he must be removed from office. That is our message, loud and clear,” Epstein declared.
Assemblymember Harvey Epstein joined New Yorkers as they known as on Gov. Kathy Hochul to take away Mayor Eric Adams from workplace at a rally in Decrease Manhattan on Feb. 16, 2025.Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
Queens Meeting member and Democratic socialist candidate for mayor Zohran Mamdani stated that Adams was a “walking emergency.”
“That is why I am calling on Governor Hochul to remove Mayor Adams from office immediately. Every single day that we let Mayor Adams sit in City Hall is another day that he could give up New York City to Donald Trump,” Mamdani stated.
Queens Meeting member and Democratic socialist candidate for mayor Zohran Mamdani stated that Mayor Adams was a “walking emergency.”Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
Together with ousting Adams, demonstrators additional demanded that Hochul signal The New York for All Act, launched by Brooklyn state Sen. Andrew Gounardes and Bronx Meeting Member Karines Reyes. The laws, S.2235/A3506, would prohibit New York’s state and native authorities businesses, together with police and sheriffs, from colluding with ICE, disclosing delicate data, and diverting personnel or different sources to additional federal immigration.
Presently, solely New York Metropolis and Westchester County have sanctuary legal guidelines inside the Empire State.
