.@EPAAWheeler of @EPA rips @NYGovCuomo and @NYCMayor de Blasio over protests (riots), threatens to relocate NYC office nypost.com/2020/09/22/epa… via @nypost
In a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, Administrator Andrew R. Wheeler torched the duo’s leadership and lashed into them for their failure to act during the July “Occupy City Hall” protests which damaged the EPA office and surrounding buildings.
Wheeler also pointed to anti-ICE demonstrations last week where at least a dozen people were arrested, and said he had received intelligence from law enforcement that the group wanted to create a “Portland like” demonstration targeting the campus they work on.
“If you cannot demonstrate that EPA employees will be safe accessing our City offices, then I will begin the process of looking for a new location for our headquarters outside of the City that can maintain order,” Wheeler wrote.
“I have an obligation to our employees and if the City is unwilling or incapable of doing its job, I will do mine and move them to a location that can competently fulfill the basic mission of a local government,” he continued.
The EPA chief said he was forced to keep home staff that needed access to their office on 260 Broadway last week because he feared for their safety.
“The demonstrators engaged in unwarranted, violent activity at the facility, breaking windows and defacing/destroying government property,” Wheeler wrote.
“In the extreme, protestors smashed a turnstile door and forcefully entered the lobby of 26 Federal Plaza,” he added, referring to the neighboring Jacob K. Javits Federal Building which houses the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.
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