Lefties pro-migrant push-back on Tischs e-bike crackdown is obscene

City Council lefties just proved again that they care a lot more about protecting law-breakers than the safety of law-abiding New Yorkers.Every.

Single.Time.The proof? How they used a budget hearing to assail NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch for deciding to issue criminal summonses to law-breaking e-bike riders, instead of mere traffic-court tickets, to discourage reckless road behavior.Their gripe? A lot of e-bike riders are delivery drivers for food apps, and a lot of delivery drivers are illegal immigrants — who might get deported if slapped with a criminal summons.Ergo, the progressives insist, the NYPD should give up on any kind of meaningful consequences for every e-biker caught blasting through a red light, barreling down a sidewalk or otherwise putting other New Yorkers at risk.Yes, really.

Queens Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán insisted cops will go out of their way to target minorities, offering this word-salad: “A person who is more likely to be a person of color may end up in deportation proceedings.It’s not just right.”No, what’s “not right” is pretending that basic public-safety enforcement is somehow racist.Meanwhile, Brooklyn’s Lincoln Restler, a pro-cycling fanatic, worried about “more people getting swept up in our criminal justice system who don’t need it.” Stay up on the very latest with Evening Update.

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Never miss a story.Obscene: He had the gall to oppose increased enforcement just days after a fast-moving e-bike rammed a 3-year-old girl, sending her to the hospital, in his own district.Nobody’s getting “swept up” in the justice system here as long as they simply obey the rules of the road.

Tisch held her own against the avalanche of “questions” that painted the NYPD as racist jackboots, rightly noting: “This is not a war on e-bikes, this is a...