New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams pledged not to surrender the city’s streets to the thugs of Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA in a Police Athletic League event on Thursday, striking a tone unheard of during the tenure of ultraprogressive mayor Bill de Blasio.

“We’re not going to surrender to those who are saying, ‘We’re going to burn down New York.’ Not my city,” said Adams. The incoming mayor was alluding to threats from Black Lives Matter leader Hank Newsome, who had threatened “riots, fire and bloodshed” in response to Adams’ plan to reinstate the NYPD’s use of plainclothes police officers. Adams served as an NYPD officer for 22 years.

Adams also addressed ANTIFA violence in the speech, striking a tone that one might expect from a Republican elected official. “We’re not going to have a city where anarchists come from outside our city and go into a community such as Queens and destroy the community for their own selfish needs or desires,” warned Adams.