The daughter of the Mayor of New York, City of Bill de Blasio did not sweat during his arrest in a protest in Manhattan earlier this week, an NYU student detained with him told The Post on Wednesday.
Chiara de Blasio, 25, calmed him down on Saturday night and did not join the singing “NYPD sucked on my d-k” and “I hate the police,” coming from some of the other two dozen on the rice train.
“She’s really cold and never brags,” I’m the mayor’s daughter, “said Arthiom Dos Reis Furtado, a 21-year-old student from Switzerland, majoring in music and business.
Chiara remained “calm” because he was caught red-handed by about 100 others on 12th Street and Broadway during a demonstration against the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police.
He allegedly blocked traffic on Broadway and was arrested after refusing to move.
“He looked upset but understood why he had been arrested,” Furtado said, adding, “they gave orders for us to flee, and we didn’t.”
A resident of Brooklyn said he only realized who his detainee was after seeing a news report of his arrest and he thought it was “cool.”
“It makes sense he’s protesting – he’s half white and black like me,” he said.
He and the mayor’s daughter are separated as soon as they are placed in the holding cell. He said facial masks were taken from those arrested by police.
The Post followed Furtado in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday after he was stopped by 10 policemen while riding a Revel scooter.
The police ransacked his bicycle and finally gave him a ticket to ride without a helmet. He accused officers of making racial profiles of him.
“This is really messy and disgusting,” he said, adding that he was not surprised by the police brutality report, citing Eric Garner’s death on Staten Island in 2014 at the hands of the police.
“This news spread throughout the world,” he said.
Mayor de Blasio had previously said that he was “proud” of his daughter for taking part in the demonstration.
“I love my daughter very much, I respect her. “I am proud of him that he cares deeply, he is willing to go there and do something about it,” Hizzoner said on Monday.
“He acted peacefully. He believes everything he does is in the spirit of peaceful and respectful protest. “
