Mayor Bill de Blasio declined to weigh in today on the case of an 84-year-old pedestrian who was reportedly beaten by cops who had been trying to give him a ticket for jaywalking at an Upper West Side intersection that has seen three fatalities in recent weeks.
But, while insisting there is no citywide jaywalking crackdown, Mr. de Blasio defended the right of individual precinct commanders to focus on the issue.
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