Mayor of Boston Michelle Wu is attacked on social media for her response to the deadly officer-released shooting in the heart of the city on Saturday.
“It seems that Mayor Wu has a big target on her back,” said Tom Whalen, a political historian at Boston University.
The police say that an officer had shot a man out of service and a man killed who tried to attack people with a knife in a chick-fil-a on Boylston Street.
Many went to X and called Mayor Wu to give condolences to the attacker's family after being killed by the police.
“My participation and all our thoughts are with the person's family whose life has been lost,” said Mayor Wu at a press conference on Saturday after the shooting. “And I am also thinking of all the people who have been hit here today in one of the busier parts of the city.”
Whalen says that mayor Wu is sitting at the hot chair while she is preparing to testify in DC this week for the congress
“I don't think this is completely normal and it is as if they were all aware, just waiting for this kind of moment to benefit politically,” said Whalen about Wu's comments that went viral.
The Huis Oversight Committee released a preview video last week and the mayors who will have confronted the committee to defend their Sanctuary City policy this week. Mayor Michelle Wu van Boston is shown in that video.
Whalen says that the mayor WU will receive this weekend is just a preview of the heat she encounters this week.
“It will be a bruising affair and mayor Wu will be politically at the top of her game, or, to resist such attacks, but it will have an impact, I might think on the Boston Mayoral campaign against Mr. Kraft,” Whalen said.
Mayor Wu is running for re -election this year and she will testify to the congress on Wednesday.
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