For a little while, it seemed a tight race as to who was the worst mayor in America, between Jenny Durkan who allowed radical leftists to take over six blocks of Seattle and form an execrable autonomous zone and New York’s Bill de Blasio who has basically destroyed his city.

But Durkan finally decided to do away with the radical autonomous zone this morning, after the radicals dared to show up at her home on Monday night with avowed Socialist city council member, Kshama Sawant.

So now, there’s no contest anymore, it’s de Blasio.

De Blasio of course was horrific when it came to the pandemic, encouraging people to congregate in public and on the subway and not doing anything until the middle of March when he finally shut the schools down. His failures are likely one of the reasons that New York has more deaths than any other state in the union.

But his reaction to the “defund the police” movement and the rioting by radical leftists has also been horrific. Under de Blasio, the 600 member anticrime department was dissolved and the members transferred to other duty. That unit was a vital part of keeping crime in check because as a plainclothes division they were proactive rather than reactive, cutting off the use of guns before the crime. Now that they’re gone and there’s a general increase in lawlessness because of the riots and the radical leftists, shootings have skyrocketed.

On top of that, the city council just voted to reduce the NYPD budget by $1 billion which is going to come largely by reducing overtime by $352 million and trimming the size of the police force by 1,163 cops, which Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted would not decrease public safety despite the increase in shootings and violence.

Radicals had been camped out, with hundreds occupying a park by the city hall in NYC for about a week demanding the $1 billion cut that they ultimately got last night. So were they leaving this morning? Not so much. De Blasio hasn’t yet learned the Durkan lesson: you don’t cede land to radicals or you may not get it back.

Police moved in this morning to remove barricades that the radical leftists had set up in the street around the park area which were preventing traffic from moving through the area. Here’s video from Shelby Talcott and Richie McGinniss of the Daily Caller.

More and more have arrived at Occupy City Hall and are taking back the barriers that protesters made for the encampment pic.twitter.com/JZRqWeYd01

— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) July 1, 2020

The moment NYPD arrived to clear the streets outside New York City Hall Park Autonomous Zone pic.twitter.com/wQVlzDLFG7

— Richie🎥McG🍿 (@RichieMcGinniss) July 1, 2020

They tried to take the park but were beat back by the radicals who assaulted them with umbrellas and other items.

That ended in a stand off with hundreds of protesters on the side walk, facing off with the police in the street.

Huge standoff out here right now. Unclear if officers plan to remove protesters from the park, or what the plan is from here after removing most of the barricades pic.twitter.com/LAAW340eeD

— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) July 1, 2020

The officers have moved back a bit but are still holding the line. Protesters are mostly staying right on the sidewalk of the park: pic.twitter.com/HfsWxjkhZw

— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) July 1, 2020

Then police just marched away, with the radicals chanting “Whose streets, our streets” and mocking them and singing “Na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye.”

Protesters are chanting, singing and dancing in the street and inside the occupy zone. Pretty much all officers have left the immediate area now, aside from a few directing traffic: pic.twitter.com/UmQxwFOkAj

— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) July 1, 2020

NYPD leaving their position after a long standoff at NYC City Hall Occupied Protest pic.twitter.com/poLNN76obc

— Richie🎥McG🍿 (@RichieMcGinniss) July 1, 2020

It’s a sad and ridiculous day in New York City with how low de Blasio and other politicians have brought the city and the NYPD.