Hundreds Turn Their Back on de Blasio at NYPD Officer's Funeral

[WestVirginiaRebel]

ABC News:

Hundreds of police officers turned their backs on a screen showing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as he spoke at the funeral of one of two officers killed last week in what has been called an "assassination."

 

The funeral at the Christ Tabernacle Church, in the Glendale neighborhood of Queens, was broadcast to thousands of police who gathered outside.

 

The killing of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu came amid heightened tensions between the police and the mayor over what some police saw as a lack of support for the force.

 

The atmosphere was mostly respectful, but there were scattered signs of protest even before the police officers' action when the mayor spoke.

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Bill De Blasio meets those whom he told his son to be afraid of...

[Valin]

DU

 

Roy Rolling (1,240 posts)

1. Drama Queens

Morons acting for the cameras. I am a lifelong union member and that police union leadership is weak, stupid, and dangerous.

heaven05 (8,351 posts)

7. idiot RW drama queens

actually with a lot of help from the complete political spectrum of amerikkka.. How about dumping the killer cops, johnnie boy?

Etc...Etc...Etc...

 

[righteousmomma]

DU

 

Roy Rolling (1,240 posts)

1. Drama Queens

Morons acting for the cameras. I am a lifelong union member and that police union leadership is weak, stupid, and dangerous.

heaven05 (8,351 posts)

7. idiot RW drama queens

actually with a lot of help from the complete political spectrum of amerikkka.. How about dumping the killer cops, johnnie boy?

Etc...Etc...Etc...

 

SICKENING!

[Valin]

[righteousmomma]

valin, go to the porch

[Valin]

New York City mayor heckled, booed at police graduation

Jonathan Allen and Sebastien Malo

NEW YORK Mon Dec 29, 2014

 

(Reuters) - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday drew heckles and boos along with applause when he addressed graduating police cadets on Monday, two days after thousands of uniformed officers turned their backs on him at a slain policeman's funeral.

 

The mayor's speech came as he struggles to mend the most toxic rift between police and City Hall in decades. The United States' biggest city has become a focal point in a national debate over the killings of unarmed black men by white police.

 

Some booed as the mayor began his address to 884 graduating cadets at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden arena, in which he warmly praised the Police Department.

 

"You will confront all the problems that plague our society," he told the new officers. "Problems that you didn't create."

 

A heckler cried out, "You created them!"

 

(Snip)