It just makes no sense.
Believing City Hall has betrayed them, cops demonstrated their anger Saturday by turning their backs on Mayor de Blasio as he entered a Brooklyn hospital to pay his respects to two murdered officers.
A startling video shows a hallway at Woodhull Hospital filled with officers silently facing away from de Blasio as he walks a blue gantlet.
The demonstration, captured by WPIX11 News, included the presidents of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and the Sergeants Benevolent Association.
“Mayor de Blasio, the blood of these two officers is clearly on your hands,” Ed Mullins, president of the sergeants association, said in a statement to his union members Saturday night.
“It is your failed policies and actions that enabled this tragedy to occur,” he said. “I only hope and pray that more of these ambushes and executions do not happen again.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-cops-turn-backs-de-blasio-hospital-article-1.2052215
Of course, Pataki, former NY Republican Mayor, gets into the act:
"Former Gov. George Pataki also lashed out against the mayor, claiming the cops’ deaths were a “predictable outcome of divisive anti-cop rhetoric of #ericholder & #mayordiblasio."
However, the title of this piece-Did I miss something?-is based more on this:
Shortly after the officers were killed, a MoveOn.org petition was formed demanding de Blasio’s ouster.
“NYC residents demand the exit of Mayor Bill DeBlasio after 2 NYPD officers were shot and killed today 12/20/14,” wrote the petitioners, who identified themselves as “The People of NYC.” The petitioners said de Blasio was “unfit to lead this city” and “unfit to have a relationship with his police department.”
Moveon.org?! I have to wonder if this is a typo. Surely MO hasn't turned against de Blasio?! The funniest part was when this same police union claims that this is not about politics.
The PBA began circulating a petition for cops to demand that de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito not attend their funeral if they die in the line of duty. The PBA would not immediately reveal if either Ramos or Liu had signed the controversial request.
“(This is) not the time for politics,” a PBA spokesman said.
Yes, trying to pin the horrible actions of a disturbed violent man from Baltimore on the Ny liberal Democratic mayor is not at all political. What is the basis that this is in any sense the Mayor's fault?
The police unions have been ticked off because they don’t think de Blasio has given them sufficient support after a Staten Island grand jury opted not to indict a cop in Eric Garner’s July 17 chokehold death
“Ever since this mayor took office there has been a sense of lawlessness that is rampant in every borough,” Mullins said in his statement Saturday night.Following the Dec. 3 grand jury announcement not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo, de Blasio said he was “astonished by the decision” and called it a “very painful day for so many New Yorkers.
Lynch said de Blasio’s comments made cops feel like “they were thrown under the bus.”
So let's unpack this. What is is that makes them feel like they were thrown under the bus? Because he questioned the Michael Garner verdict. In the minds of these irrational men, if the Mayor disagrees with them on one verdict and says so publicly they've been 'thrown under the bus.'
So what they want then is clear: blanket support' which basically means don't criticize police brutality or when the cops themselves egregiously break the laws they are sworn to uphold. What they desire is not support but carte blanche. As for this sense of lawlessness' this is just anger that the Mayor ended the sorry legacy of stop and frisk.
Honestly, these members of the PBA should be ashamed of themselves as they are doing the City a disservice trying to manipulate the tragic murder of two of their own for rank politics: it's not hard to guess who they voted for and it wasn't de Blasio. They want Bloomberg back who would never criticize police brutality.
What seems to be going on is said to say, that a terrible murder of two cops is being used to try to beat back legitimate and lawful protests. A narrative is forming among opponents of de Blasio that somehow he has let the protests get out of hand.
Rudolph Giuliani of course gets in the act-admitting that you can't pin the murders of the cops on the Mayor-but still argues that somehow he was too easy on the protesters and that led to the murders.
"Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said blaming de Blasio for the police officers' deaths went too far.
"I think it goes too far to blame the mayor for the murder or to ask for the mayor's resignation," said Giuliani on "Fox & Friends Weekend." "But I don't think it goes too far to say the mayor did not properly police the protests. He allowed the protesters to take over the streets." That, Giuliani said, led to an atmosphere that he compared to the Crown Heights riots in 1991."
"I don't think he is a bad man," Giuliani said. "I think he's pursuing the wrong policies."
http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/nypd-killings-spur-outrage-condemnation-and-threats-1.9736013
Believing City Hall has betrayed them, cops demonstrated their anger Saturday by turning their backs on Mayor de Blasio as he entered a Brooklyn hospital to pay his respects to two murdered officers.
A startling video shows a hallway at Woodhull Hospital filled with officers silently facing away from de Blasio as he walks a blue gantlet.
The demonstration, captured by WPIX11 News, included the presidents of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and the Sergeants Benevolent Association.
“Mayor de Blasio, the blood of these two officers is clearly on your hands,” Ed Mullins, president of the sergeants association, said in a statement to his union members Saturday night.
“It is your failed policies and actions that enabled this tragedy to occur,” he said. “I only hope and pray that more of these ambushes and executions do not happen again.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-cops-turn-backs-de-blasio-hospital-article-1.2052215
Of course, Pataki, former NY Republican Mayor, gets into the act:
"Former Gov. George Pataki also lashed out against the mayor, claiming the cops’ deaths were a “predictable outcome of divisive anti-cop rhetoric of #ericholder & #mayordiblasio."
However, the title of this piece-Did I miss something?-is based more on this:
Shortly after the officers were killed, a MoveOn.org petition was formed demanding de Blasio’s ouster.
“NYC residents demand the exit of Mayor Bill DeBlasio after 2 NYPD officers were shot and killed today 12/20/14,” wrote the petitioners, who identified themselves as “The People of NYC.” The petitioners said de Blasio was “unfit to lead this city” and “unfit to have a relationship with his police department.”
Moveon.org?! I have to wonder if this is a typo. Surely MO hasn't turned against de Blasio?! The funniest part was when this same police union claims that this is not about politics.
The PBA began circulating a petition for cops to demand that de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito not attend their funeral if they die in the line of duty. The PBA would not immediately reveal if either Ramos or Liu had signed the controversial request.
“(This is) not the time for politics,” a PBA spokesman said.
Yes, trying to pin the horrible actions of a disturbed violent man from Baltimore on the Ny liberal Democratic mayor is not at all political. What is the basis that this is in any sense the Mayor's fault?
The police unions have been ticked off because they don’t think de Blasio has given them sufficient support after a Staten Island grand jury opted not to indict a cop in Eric Garner’s July 17 chokehold death
“Ever since this mayor took office there has been a sense of lawlessness that is rampant in every borough,” Mullins said in his statement Saturday night.Following the Dec. 3 grand jury announcement not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo, de Blasio said he was “astonished by the decision” and called it a “very painful day for so many New Yorkers.
Lynch said de Blasio’s comments made cops feel like “they were thrown under the bus.”
So let's unpack this. What is is that makes them feel like they were thrown under the bus? Because he questioned the Michael Garner verdict. In the minds of these irrational men, if the Mayor disagrees with them on one verdict and says so publicly they've been 'thrown under the bus.'
So what they want then is clear: blanket support' which basically means don't criticize police brutality or when the cops themselves egregiously break the laws they are sworn to uphold. What they desire is not support but carte blanche. As for this sense of lawlessness' this is just anger that the Mayor ended the sorry legacy of stop and frisk.
Honestly, these members of the PBA should be ashamed of themselves as they are doing the City a disservice trying to manipulate the tragic murder of two of their own for rank politics: it's not hard to guess who they voted for and it wasn't de Blasio. They want Bloomberg back who would never criticize police brutality.
What seems to be going on is said to say, that a terrible murder of two cops is being used to try to beat back legitimate and lawful protests. A narrative is forming among opponents of de Blasio that somehow he has let the protests get out of hand.
Rudolph Giuliani of course gets in the act-admitting that you can't pin the murders of the cops on the Mayor-but still argues that somehow he was too easy on the protesters and that led to the murders.
"Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said blaming de Blasio for the police officers' deaths went too far.
"I think it goes too far to blame the mayor for the murder or to ask for the mayor's resignation," said Giuliani on "Fox & Friends Weekend." "But I don't think it goes too far to say the mayor did not properly police the protests. He allowed the protesters to take over the streets." That, Giuliani said, led to an atmosphere that he compared to the Crown Heights riots in 1991."
"I don't think he is a bad man," Giuliani said. "I think he's pursuing the wrong policies."
http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/nypd-killings-spur-outrage-condemnation-and-threats-1.9736013
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