Former New York City police commissioner and fire commissioner, Howard Safir, has accused Democrat mayors and city councils of handing over America's cities to "domestic terrorists."

Safir remarks came during an appearance on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Daily.

Safir said:

"It's the Democratic cities who have basically ceded their cities to what got called 'peaceful protesters' but are really people who are vandals and looters, and in some cases, not only assault people but are murderers."

"You look at Seattle, you look at Minneapolis, you look at Chicago, and places like that where basically they have given their cities to these — what I call — domestic terrorists."

U.S. cities targeted by violent left-wing groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter include Chicago, Minneapolis, and Seattle.

Safir noted that leftist news media outlets framed police as pathologized by "racism."