Mayor Eric Adams claimed that the masked firebug who torched nearly a dozen NYPD vehicles in Brooklyn Thursday morning was linked to the violent anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles – but sources told The Post there is little to back up that assertion.
“We have reasons to believe the person who participated in this act is connected to some of the protests that [are] taking place in Los Angeles and throughout the entire country,” Adams told reporters of the arson, which took place in a Bushwick lot about a block from the 83rd Precinct stationhouse.
Hizzoner would not elaborate further on how that connection was established, but said “there’s a clear indication that someone that had firsthand knowledge of this and taking credit for it, and that’s going to be part of our investigation.”
Sources, however, say the mayor was referring to a screed posted on X announcing the arson, and listing the top motive as “solidarity with the uprising happening in Los Angeles where community and rebels are fighting Amerikkan pig forces.”
“From one cop city to another, death to the pigs and the surveillance state,” the poster wrote.
But the legitimacy of that post – and whether the writer actually took part in the LA riots – has not been confirmed, poilce sources said
A total of 11 vehicles were damaged and 14 were impacted in the early-morning fires, but thankfully no injuries were reported, Adams said.
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