Sentences with phrase «city along racial lines»

De Blasio also continues to divide the city along racial lines.

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Bratton has been a national figure for so long that non-cops might forget that he once walked a beat in Boston himself — back when patrol officers still stopped at call boxes to report to their bosses, and the city he grew up in was bitterly split along racial lines.

In the wake of unrest over a grand jury's decision not to bring an indictment in the Eric Garner case and the murder of two police officers, Mario Cuomo, who had governed during the days of strife in Benonshurst and Howard Beach, had become concerned with division in the city along racial and class lines, Mr. Cuomo said.

It sounded much like the one that made him at best a gadfly and at worst a pariah in Christine Quinn's City Council: he intends to vote against the powerful Mr. Silver for Speaker, to pontificate on the floor against the lack of black power in New York and to unite the African - American members of the conference along racial lines.