Following a weekend of anti-police protests in Atlanta that spiraled into wild riots, one of New York City’s most high-profile ex-police commissioners told Fox News these “radical groups” have no end goal except “mayhem.”
Ray Kelly, the NYPD commissioner in the years following 9/11 who was also credited with stepping-up Giuliani-era stop-and-frisk policing under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said the Atlanta riots reminded him of the chaotic summer following the death of George Floyd.
“[P]eople who do this, by and large, come from these sort of amorphous, loosely organized radical groups, and they can travel throughout the country,” he said Monday on “The Story.”
“Their goal is mayhem. And … when they see an issue they’ll latch onto it and try to exacerbate the situation. That’s what we see now.”
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Kelly noted how the Atlanta violence mostly stemmed from activists opposition to police…
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