Top de Blasio Aide Posts Photo of Vulgar, Racist S
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Posted On: 11/17/2016 7:21:00 PM
Top de Blasio Aide Posts Photo of Vulgar, Racist Sign
Uploading the photograph to his account earlier this week, 32-year-old Restler wrote: 'To celebrate my mama's birthday we took to the streets to stand in solidarity with immigrant New Yorkers.'
He removed the post from his Facebook page after being inundated with criticism.
'And you represent our mayors office (sic)?' asked one while another said: 'That one sign is inappropriate.
There are good white people and you are not going to make me feel guilty that I am!'
'Could you imagine what would happen if I walked around with anti-black signs?' said another beneath the post as it was shared by others.
Reslter's mother held up a sign that read 'love' while his father's said 'Black lives matter + browns + immigrants.'
Neither he nor his sister could be reached early on Thursday morning.
A City Hall spokesman told New York Daily News Victoria's sign was in protest of white supremacy and not 'whiteness' as written.
'No doubt the message was inartful and not clear enough in its intent and that’s why Lincoln took it off his page,”
Victoria Restler works as an artist in Brooklyn. Earlier this year she lodged her supprt with protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline project, visiting Standing Rock in North Dakota where Native Americans are leading the fight against the project.
De Blasio's office said the mayor had neither seen the post nor did he approve of it.
Uploading the photograph to his account earlier this week, 32-year-old Restler wrote: 'To celebrate my mama's birthday we took to the streets to stand in solidarity with immigrant New Yorkers.'
He removed the post from his Facebook page after being inundated with criticism.
'And you represent our mayors office (sic)?' asked one while another said: 'That one sign is inappropriate.
There are good white people and you are not going to make me feel guilty that I am!'
'Could you imagine what would happen if I walked around with anti-black signs?' said another beneath the post as it was shared by others.
Reslter's mother held up a sign that read 'love' while his father's said 'Black lives matter + browns + immigrants.'
Neither he nor his sister could be reached early on Thursday morning.
A City Hall spokesman told New York Daily News Victoria's sign was in protest of white supremacy and not 'whiteness' as written.
'No doubt the message was inartful and not clear enough in its intent and that’s why Lincoln took it off his page,”
Victoria Restler works as an artist in Brooklyn. Earlier this year she lodged her supprt with protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline project, visiting Standing Rock in North Dakota where Native Americans are leading the fight against the project.
De Blasio's office said the mayor had neither seen the post nor did he approve of it.
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