A Large Apple mayoral candidate discussion board turned ugly for former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday night time when a mob of offended protesters ambushed the stage and chanted, “Cuomo lies, people die.”
The disgraced pol, who resigned from the governor’s workplace in 2021 following a slew of scandals, was answering a query about public security on the Black Agenda’s Democratic mayoral discussion board at Medgar Evers School in Brooklyn when a horde of demonstrators funneled into the auditorium and stormed the stage.
The stunt, which elicited audible groans from the viewers, solely lasted for just a few moments earlier than the NYPD tried to wrangle the agitators and escort them out of the constructing.
“Cuomo lies, people die,” protesters chanted as cops intervened.
One other particular person screamed, “F–k you, Cuomo!” throughout the chaotic scene.
Cuomo, 67, remained on stage as demonstrators surrounded him — and at one level stood as much as shake the arms of some attendees who provided him phrases of assist.
The Metropolis Corridor frontrunner disregarded the incident as political theater and resumed the occasion, quipping that there’s all the time “drama” in politics.
“They want to play political games,” he stated.
“That’s part of the problem in this system, right? Too much politics, not enough substance, not enough discussion,” Cuomo continued, later touting his achievements in workplace throughout a information interview.
“I’ve been HUD secretary, attorney general and governor for 11 years. These issues are contentious, and people have different opinions, and God bless. You know, I don’t know that there is a major project that I have taken on where there wasn’t differences of opinion.”
The ex-governor has been fiercely criticized over his administration’s disastrous March 2020 choice to ship contaminated COVID-19 sufferers into nursing properties — which resulted in as many as 15,000 deaths — throughout the worst interval of the killer pandemic.
Cuomo, who has lengthy disputed allegations of sexual harassment by a number of girls, was additionally accused of undercounting the nursing dwelling dying toll by as a lot as 50%.
Henry Butler, who led the discussion board, slammed those that interrupted the in any other case sleepy occasion.
“One of the issues and problems with the Democratic Party, who claim to be a big tent party, is that if you don’t have a certain view, then they try to shut you down,” Butler stated.
“And I think it’s a disgrace when I see a bunch of young, white progressive types (come into our space). Do not tell us who we should vote for, we can think for ourselves, we are educated.”
