Mayor Bill De Blasio Says 'The Time For Warnings Has Passed' After Large Crowd Gathers For Funeral In Brooklyn
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio says "the time for warnings has passed" after a large crowd was found gathering for a funeral in Brooklyn on Tuesday night.
Hundreds of people gathered in Williamsburg around 7 p.m. for a rabbi's funeral.
Many could be seen wearing face masks, but they were standing close together.
Police officers were on the scene to help with crowd control.
In a tweet, the mayor wrote: "We have lost so many these last two months and I understand the instinct to gather to mourn. But large gatherings will only lead to more deaths and more families in mourning. We will not allow this. I have instructed the NYPD to have one standard for this whole city: zero tolerance."
De Blasio's tweets sparked outrage from City Councilman Chaim Deutsch, who accused the mayor of singling out a single ethnic community, stereotyping and inviting Antisemitism.
No arrests have been made.
