New York Mayor Bill de Blasio had harsh words for parents and neighborhood groups "taking the law into their own hands" by cutting locks on city playgrounds, but has continued to defend the protesters who crowd city streets.

The mayor scolded New Yorkers for busting open padlocked playgrounds, during a press conference on Tuesday at which he reminded reporters that the sites are set to remain closed until "Phase 2" of post-coronavirus reopening.

We're not going to allow people to take the law into their own hands. It just doesn't work.

Insisting the continued closure of children's play-spaces is "for a reason," de Blasio insisted he'd been "very sympathetic" and tried to "make it work," but blamed parents for not following the rules. He also threatened to postpone Phase 2 or even return to full lockdown if city residents refused to cooperate, hinting that any suggestion the virus was spreading would push any hoped-for playground reopening into the distant future.

De Blasio's recriminations were playground-specific for a reason, however. The mayor was photographed marching with protesters in East Harlem on Sunday, and has repeatedly defended the George Floyd protesters' flouting of the Covid-19 social distancing measures he insists on applying elsewhere with an iron fist, proclaiming that "an extraordinary crisis seated in 400 years of American racism" trumps "the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person."

A Hasidic Jewish group was filmed cutting the lock on Williamsburg's Middleton Playground on Monday, presumably reasoning that with the massive protests that have thronged the streets over the past three weeks, the logic that children must be barred from climbing on play equipment for the sake of "social distancing" has been utterly shredded.

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