Boston's mayor Michel Woo raised the eyebrows during the weekend after she expressed her condolences to a suspected family with a knife, who was killed by an officer out of service after he tried to stab two people on Saturday evening.
The suspect, whose identity has not been released by the police, with a knife near Chick-Fil-A On Potiston Street, A crowded part of the capital of Massachusetts. The police said that he was killed by a police officer outside the service, who saw him targeting the two victims.
During a press conference on Saturday night, Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox He said that the officer set himself to the suspect and asked him to drop his weapon.
“The individual was trying to stab the two people in the store, and the officer set the same out of service as a police officer, and asked them to drop the weapon, and then the individual did not comply,” Cox explained. “The officer took out his weapon to stop the threat, and the individual was beaten. The armed individual was taken to a local hospital, where he announced his death.”
Boston Michel Woo's mayor was criticized after a man carrying a knife was held two people before shooting at the hands of an out -to -service officer. (Boston 25 News)
Cox added that he was “proud of police officers who are active, whether in service or out of service, to try to save lives.”
After Kox and Cox's County County lawyer Kevin Hayden Province expressed some sadness due to the loss of life during the accident, Wu did not significantly express his sympathy for the two people who were stabbed by the suspect, only those who were affected by the accident, which occurred in “one of the most crowded parts” of Pentun.
Wu said: “My condolences, and all our thoughts, with the family of the person who lost his life.” “I am also thinking about all the people who were affected here today in one of the most preoccupied parts in the city with this tragedy.”
“I am happy that the officer is very safe and grateful for a quick response from all the first respondents here again,” she said.
Wu's comments were summoned by critics throughout the country on social media shortly after speaking. Journalist Jonathan Choi wrote that “(I) is everything upside down in Boston.”
Boston's mayor Michel Woo offered her “condolences, and all our ideas” to the family of a man carrying a knife who was claimed to have tried to stab people before he was shot at the hands of an officer outside the service. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)
“When was the last time I heard about a municipal head, apologizing to the family of one of the attacked knife claiming to have tried to kill many people?” Choi. “What about people who were almost killed?”
“Boston,” said conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
Fox News Joe Kunsha, a former resident of Boston, was also in the accident.
“How exactly Boston's voice for this again?” Koncha wrote. “I lived in the back of the Gulf. It was one of the safest parts in the city. She offers my condolences ????”
“My condolences from the mayor of Boston – waited for that – to a man trying to kill people!” Representative Nancy Mass said, RS.C. “Fortunately, this man stopped his paths by the brave law enforcement officer.”
This incident came at a time when Boston officials, including Wu and Cox, attracted criticism from the conservatives for the implementation of the city of the campus. Catherine Vitaly, a former city council candidate, told Fox and Friends last week that she believed that Wu “does not care” of the crime in Boston.
“There is a lot of crime almost every day. There is a shooting. We don't always hear about them, but we hear them because we are there. I don't think most of the crime is actually reported. People are not caught. The charges are not pressured on people looting,” Vitaly said.
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A police officer in Boston stopped a man from trying to stab people at Chick-Fil-A, and the city's mayor offered her condolences to the suspect's family. (Matt Stone/Medianews Group/Boston Heerad via Getty Images)
It is expected that Wu in Washington, DC, this week as one of the four Democratic mayors, is scheduled to witness in front of Congress. Sanctuary Policies.
Fox News Digital has communicated with Wu for an additional comment, but she didn't hear immediately.
Taylor Benley of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
