Mayor Eric Adams: ‘I Wanted to Look’ Luigi Mangione ‘in the Eye’

EXCERPT:

ADAMS: "I was at a conference a few days ago with top CEOs, IBM, Deloitte, it was a room full of CEOs and government officials, and this shooting, the intentional shooting and the response after really traumatized the entire industry, not only the CEOs, but the employees. People forget that. And I wanted to send a strong message with the police commissioner that we’re leading from the front. I'm not going to just allow him to come into our city. I wanted to look him in the eye and say that, 'You carried out this terrorist act in my city, the city that the people of New York love,’ and I wanted to be there to show the symbolism of that."