NEW YORK CITY: Al Sharpton to protest supervised injection site that the mayor likes

NEW YORK POST: Mayor Bill de Blasio’s sometime political partner, the Rev. Al Sharpton, is protesting his legalized drug injection site in Harlem, charging that city officials are treating the predominantly black neighborhood as a dumping ground for addicted, homeless and mentally ill New Yorkers.

“We are compassionate and want to help all the vulnerable population in New York City, however, we cannot be complacent regarding the decades-long process of systemic racism that has oversaturated our community,” event organizers, including Sharpton’s National Action Network, said in an email about the Dec. 11. protest. 

Last week, de Blasio heralded the opening of the New York Harm Reduction Educators on East 126th Street and another public drug den in Washington Heights as a “safe effective way to address the opioid crisis.” Staff at the sites are trained to reverse overdoses and provide drug addiction services to users.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/08/rev-al-sharpton-protests-mayor-de-blasios…