New Yorkers are being shot dead as Bill de Blasio ‘liberates Fifth Avenue’ with BLM art

After the mural was splashed with red paint, according to the Daily Wire, de Blasio mocked the vandal on Twitter, saying that the Department of Transportation had already fixed it, and that "the Black Lives Matter movement is more than words, and it can't be undone."

At the same time, the family of the baby slain in Brooklyn on Sunday night noted that they had not heard from de Blasio, or any other city official. Repairing the mural that says Black Lives Matter appeared to be more important to de Blasio that the black lives lost in the city he is supposedly running.

Speaking out after his one-year-old son was gunned down, the father of Davell Gardner Jr. said that he hasn't heard from the mayor, or any other official, to offer condolences on the tragic death of his son.

He describes the scene at the hospital, finding out that his son had passed. "When the doctors came out and told me I just lost myself," he said. His mother was by his side.

She said "For the cowards that did this, you should be ashamed of yourself. Because everybody's talking about 'black lives matter' but what about baby lives, what about teenager lives? You took an innocent child from a mother and a father as well as the grandparents, and I don't think that's fair."

"The community is just getting worse and worse. Nobody's doing nothing about it. Nobody is trying to make a change. Every day is just worse and worse and you don't know if you're going to see the next day," Gardner said.

"I wanted to get him out of this violence before something like this happened," Gardner said.

On Monday, de Blasio visited the baby's mother, and put out a statement as to how gun violence is a national tragedy. He did not note that, prior to the recent defunding of police and removal of the plainclothes units from New York's streets, the city had less guns and less gun violence.

De Blasio had joined in painting the mural last week, which mirrors many such street murals across the country. In big yellow letters on 5th Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets, de Blasio was glad to stick it to Trump, as the slogan Black Lives Matter was painted right outside Trump Tower.

De Blasio said "We are not denigrating anything, we are liberating Fifth Avenue." He went on to say "When we say black lives matter there is no more American statement, there is no more patriotic statement, because there is no America without black America. We are acknowledging the truth of ourselves as Americans in saying black lives matter. And we are righting a wrong. We are saying this is a bigger truth."

"When we ended stop and frisk, we were saying Black Lives Matter. When ended mass incarceration we were saying Black Lives Matter. When we took money from the NYPD budget and gave it to young people we are saying Black Lives Matter. When we say that everyone is accountable under the law... we are saying Black Lives Matter. And when we say... we are going to examine ever part of this city... to identify the institutional racism and tear it down we are saying Black Lives Matter." He went on to say.