Mayor Michelle Wu, Boston, raised eyebrows at the weekend after she had pronounced condolences to the family of a suspect of Mes who was shot and killed by an officer out of service after they allegedly tried to put two people on Saturday evening.
The suspect, whose identity was not released by the police, waved up with a knife near a chick-film-a Boylston Street, A busy part of the capital of Massachusetts. He was deadly shot by a police officer out of service who saw him focus on the two victims, the police said.
During a Saturday evening press conference, the Boston police, the Commissioner of Boston Michael Cox said that the officer identified himself to the suspect and asked him to drop his weapon.
“The person tried to put the two people in the store, and the officer out of service identified himself as a police officer and instructed them to drop the weapon, after which the individual did not suffice,” Cox explained. “The officer fired his weapon to stop the threat and the individual was beaten. The armed person was taken to a local hospital where he was declared dead.”
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Mayor Michelle Wu van Boston was criticized for her reaction after a knife-waving man terrorized two people before he was shot and killed by an officer out of service. (Boston 25 News)
Cox added that he “was proud of police officers who activate himself, whether it has a service or is out of service, to try to save lives.”
After Cox and Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden expressed both sadness about the loss of life during the incident, Wu did not pronounce any sympathy for the two people who were almost stabbed by the suspect, only those “affected” by the incident, who happened in “one of the busier” of Beantown.
“My condolences and all our thoughts are with the family of the individual whose life has been lost,” said Wu. “And I am also thinking of all the people who were hit here today in one of the busier parts of the city with this tragedy.”
“I am happy that the officer is safe and very grateful for a quick response from all our first responds here,” she said.
Wu’s comments were called by critics throughout the country on social media shortly after she spoke. Journalist Jonathan Choe wrote that “(I) t is all upside down in Boston.”
Mayor Michelle Wu van Boston offered her “condolences and all our thoughts” to the family of a knife-waving man who allegedly tried to put people before he was shot and killed by an officer out of service. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)
“When did you last heard that a mayor apologizes to the family of a knife who allegedly tried to kill several people?” Choe asked. “What about the people who are almost killed?”
“Boston, I’m going to say this as simply as possible: you urgently need a new mayor. Believe me,” said Conservative Commentator Charlie Kirk in another X post.
Fox News -employee Joe Concha, a former resident of Boston, also weighed the incident.
“How exactly did Boston vote for this?” Concha wrote. “I lived in the Back Bay Area. It was one of the safest parts of the city. And she offers condolences ????”
“Condoloses of the mayor of Boston – wait for a knife -waving man trying to kill people!” Rep. Nancy Mace, RS.C., said. “Fortunately, this man was put in his spurs by a brave law enforcement officer.”
The incident then came to Boston officials, including Wu and Cox, criticism of conservatives for the implementation of the city policy of the sanctuary. Catherine Vitale, a former candidate from the city council, told “Fox and Friends” last week that she believes that Wu does not care “for crime in Boston.
“There is a lot of crime almost every day. There is a shooting. We don’t always hear about it, but we hear them because we are there. I don’t think the majority of crime is even reported. People are not arrested. Costs are not pressed on people who plunder stores,” said Vitale.
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A police officer outside of service in Boston stopped a man to put people in a chick-film-a, and the mayor of the city offered her condolences to the suspect’s family. (Matt Stone/Medianews Group/Boston Herald via Getty images)
Wu is expected this week in Washington, DC, as one of the four Democratic mayors who are planned to testify to the congress Sanctuary policy.
Fox News Digital reached for WU for extra comments, but did not hear immediately.
Taylor Penley from Fox News Digital has contributed to this report.
