Forwarded from NYC Updates
Mayor de Blasio was a passenger in a car crash; the NYPD covered it up
On a Saturday morning in August 2015, Mayor #BillDeBlasio was in the back seat of a black #NYPD Chevy Tahoe bound for an event in #Harlem when a driver changing lanes slammed into his ride.
No one was hurt, but the commanding officer of the mayor’s executive protection unit, Howard Redmond, was furious. Text messages show he immediately ordered the incident be covered up to protect de Blasio’s image.
“As per CO [the commanding officer] no one is to know about this,” Sgt. Jerry Ioveno texted members of the unit, referring to Redmond. “Not even the other teams.”
“No one is to know,” he repeated.
On a Saturday morning in August 2015, Mayor #BillDeBlasio was in the back seat of a black #NYPD Chevy Tahoe bound for an event in #Harlem when a driver changing lanes slammed into his ride.
No one was hurt, but the commanding officer of the mayor’s executive protection unit, Howard Redmond, was furious. Text messages show he immediately ordered the incident be covered up to protect de Blasio’s image.
“As per CO [the commanding officer] no one is to know about this,” Sgt. Jerry Ioveno texted members of the unit, referring to Redmond. “Not even the other teams.”
“No one is to know,” he repeated.