You don’t want to do this, an aide to NYC leader Eric Adams told armed robbers. I work for the mayor,” he said as he became one of the most recent victims of violent crime in the Big Apple.
Christopher Bauch, 33, made the comment in an effort to put an end to the mugging in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard neighborhood on Tuesday morning, but the armed thieves still robbed him.
While scouting potential locations for a future mayoral event that Adams wants to hold in the area, Bauch was attacked.
Two black men abruptly approached him at the intersection of Navy and Sands streets and demanded his wallet and phone.
According to law enforcement sources quoted by the New York Daily News, Bauch attempted to thwart the robbery and yelled at the would-be thieves to “Get out of my way.”
But after pulling a gun on Bauch and throwing him to the ground, both suspects took his possessions.
Later, a source close to the aide claimed to DailyMail.com that Bauch was “a little shaken up” but wasn’t seriously hurt.
He claimed that after the brutal attack, Adams had gotten in touch to see how the aide was doing.
He is also said to be supporting the Democratic mayors’ initiative to combat crime, which is expected to reintroduce stricter preventive measures like stop-and-frisk.
According to the unnamed source, Adams “was very supportive and reached out to offer sympathy” to the victim. Before dialing 911, Bauch reportedly informed a security officer at the Brooklyn Tow Pound facility of the NYPD about the assault, according to the New York Daily News.
Several regional media outlets claim that one thief sped off on a CitiBike. As of Tuesday evening, no one had been taken into custody.
Both of the thieves were described as being black men, with one hiding his face behind sunglasses and a blue mask and the other donning a blue and white sweatshirt.
According to a source close to Bauch, the experience hasn’t changed his opinions about personal safety in New York City, and the City Hall assistant is still ‘on board’ with the mayor’s efforts to address the 38 percent increase in crime in the Big Apple over the previous year.
Requests for response from DailyMail.com on the mayor’s office have gone unanswered.
The horrific Fourth of July holiday weekend in NYC, which saw at least 31 people shot or died in 24 shootings, just before the mugging. Yesterday, July 4th itself, saw the deaths of three persons.
Over the holiday weekend, there were 60% more shootings, according to the police, than there were the year before, when there were 15 occurrences and 19 victims.
After making a commitment to keep New Yorkers safe over the long weekend, Mayor Eric Adams announced the dramatic increase.
Adams declared, “We are going to employ every tool in our toolbox to give New Yorkers a safe and joyful holiday weekend for the Fourth of July.”
Adams has worked hard to remove illicit firearms from New York City’s streets, and as a result, homicides are down 13% from the previous year and shooting victims are down 9%.
However, compared to last year, major crimes in New York are up 38% this year, with robberies up 39%, burglaries up 34%, and felony assaults up 19%.
A 27-year-old man who is an NYPD employee’s boyfriend was involved in one incident on Monday. In front of a Dior store in Manhattan’s upscale SoHo district, a man was shot and hurt in a drive-by.
The unidentified man was shot while sitting in his car at 5 o’clock on Greene Street between Prince and Spring streets.
He was injured in his right underarm when he was taken to Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital, but he was expected to survive.
The execution-style killing of a mother with a baby in a stroller last week in front of an Upper East Side playground shocked the entire city.
The hooded shooter approached the 20-year-old victim as she was strolling with her three-month-old child and “fired a single shot into her head from a very close range,” according to NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell.
Adams cited the “over-proliferation of guns” as the cause of the shooting and claimed that criminals “have no fear in using these guns on innocent New Yorkers.”
The New York City Police Department and other law enforcement agencies find it challenging to combat this issue because of the overabundance of guns and the dangerous individuals who frequently elude the criminal justice system.
Affluent and often quiet, the neighborhood where the shooting took place has less violent street crimes than many other parts of New York.
The Samuel Seabury Playground, which is just across from the crime scene, was crowded with kids who saw the horrifying shooting.
It doesn’t matter if you’re in East New York, Brooklyn, or the Upper East Side, Adams remarked.
A bill that represents some of the most significant improvements to federal gun law in decades was signed into law by President Joe Biden at the end of June.
During the signing ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Biden remarked, “Lives will be spared.”
‘We don’t even hear about the amount of people slain every day in the streets, from Columbine to Sandy Hook to Charleston, Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland, El Paso, Atlanta, Buffalo, Uvalde, and for the shootings that happen every day in the streets that are mass shootings.
The president remarked, “Their message to us was to just do something.”
The city currently experiences 13.3 significant crimes for every 1,000 residents annually, according to the NYPD.
Rapes, murders, and felony assaults account for 2.8 per 1,000 population of all violent crimes annually.