Our cities planners, mayors, and council members are not elected to concede to demands made by any organized protesters. They are elected to serve the taxpaying community. They are, as all elected officials, bound and obligated by their own oaths to uphold the laws of their municipalities.
Mayor Deblasio and several others across this country have violated that oath of office and should be immediately dismissed from those positions. No one group or organization has any more rights to impose their wants over the wants of the entire communities that these public officials are bound to serve. These officials are guilty of these violations of their oaths of office, just as if they embezzled funds from their municipality coffers, and both penalties, hopefully, would require removal of the official from their elected position.