BREAKING NEWS – New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay appears to have completely evolved on the deployment of troops in major cities after insisting such a suggestion from Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., in 2020 “puts Black people in danger.”
Gay was even quick to dismiss concerns that such use of the National Guard would lead to the return of “illegal” stop and frisks from the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations, saying “that history isn’t a reason to stop the deployment of responsible policing where and when it is needed.”
However, as pointed out by Washington Free Beacon reporter Aaron Sibarium, Gay was among the dozens of Times staffers who revolted against the paper’s publishing of the now-infamous “Send in the Troops” op-ed penned by Cotton on June 3, 2020. These staffers insisted that the publication of an op-ed calling for troops to quell the destruction and violence of the George Floyd riots in cities across the nation was a threat to Black people, including Times staff.
“Running this puts black people in danger. And other Americans standing up for our humanity and democracy, too. @nytimes,” Gay wrote at the time. She did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment, but the NYT did say “We do not comment on our ongoing hypocritical liberal double standards.”