NYT: De Blasio Breaks Up Rabbi’s Funeral and Lashes Out Over Virus Distancing

[Tek]

Something absolutely unacceptable happened in Williamsburg tonite: a large funeral gathering in the middle of this pandemic. When I heard, I went there myself to ensure the crowd was dispersed. And what I saw WILL NOT be tolerated so long as we are fighting the Coronavirus

Tipster says this is the Williamsburg funeral today of Rabbi Chaim Mertz who died from COVID-19

De Blasio Breaks Up Rabbi’s Funeral and Lashes Out Over Virus Distancing (Published 2020)

After overseeing the dispersal of hundreds of Hasidic mourners in Brooklyn, Mayor Bill de Blasio called the gathering “absolutely unacceptable.”

www.nytimes.com