‘Not the same question’: De Blasio justifies allowing mass protests but not religious services

By Nicholas Rowan

Published June 2, 2020 5:17pm ET

‘Not the same question’: De Blasio justifies allowing mass protests but not religious services — FILE- In this Feb. 25, 2014 file photo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a news conference at P.S. 130 in New York. As state lawmakers settle in on a plan to fund pre-kindergarten in New York City, de Blasio is beginning to focus on other items in his progressive agenda. De Blasio will set his sights on massively expanding affordable housing, hiking wages for the working class and overhauling the city's recovery from Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) | Seth Wenig

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that allowing protests is “not the same question” as allowing religious services.

“400 years of American racism, I’m sorry, that is not the same question as the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services,” de Blasio said during a press conference Tuesday.

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