By Michael Ventura
DNAinfo Senior Editor
MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended BP during his Friday morning radio show, saying the public shouldn't rush to judge the British company responsible for a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"The guy that runs BP didn't exactly go down there and blow up the well," Bloomberg said. "And what's more, if you want them to fix it, and they're the only ones with the expertise, I think I might wait to assign blame until we get it fixed."
The mayor went on to say that he thinks society today is too quick to point fingers.
"It's not any one person or one party or one branch of government. There's got to be someone that's culpable in everything," he said. "Come on."
Anger against BP, the world's third largest oil company, has grown over more than a month since an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, triggering an environmental catastrophe whose scale has so far defied measurement.
That outrage has reached Manhattan.
A protest against BP took place in Union Square on Thursday, and on June 1, protesters defaced the sign of a BP gas station on East Houston Street in SoHo.
