De Blasio Pressured Pols to Condemn Police; Will Other NYC and National Media Ignore?

NewsBusters ^ | December 31, 2014 | 2:04 PM EST | Tom Blumer

[Olog-hai]

Let’s say that a Republican or conservative governor or big-city mayor (yes, there actually are quite a few) was in a heated dispute with his state’s or city’s police union. Let’s further say that this official decided that his or her best method for whipping up support was to order the staff to (ahem) “ask” GOP legislators or council members to issue public statements of support while bashing the cops. If such a campaign were exposed, that town’s or state’s press would appropriately be all over it. That public official would also get plenty of negative national attention, especially if he or she already had a bit of a national profile.

So let’s see how far and wide—my prediction is “not very”—the following report from New York City online publication DNAinfo goes, especially at the New York Times, which has itself editorially attacked the police while indulging and ignoring the serious transgressions of “protesters” who have threatened them. …

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Nekulturny!!

[smoothsailing]

What the cops have every right to expect is a sincere, unconditional apology from de Blasio for his statements and actions during the past several weeks. Instead, the Mayor continues to violate the first rule of holes: When you're in one, stop digging.

It also cannot be emphasized enough, based on news accounts from across the nation during the past several days, that the longer this goes on, the more danger cops everywhere will face.

and that is the bottom line.

[SoFloFreeper]

Of course they will ignore the truth.

[KeyLargo]

Pirro: De Blasio Engaged in ‘Anti-Law Enforcement Agenda’

VIDEO

by Ian Hanchett4 Jan 2015

On Saturday, the Fox News Channel’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” host Judge Jeanine Pirro accused New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) of engaging in an “anti-law enforcement agenda.”

Pirro argued that New York City has “never [been] more divided.” And “as tens of thousands of police from around the country come to pay respects to Officer Wenjian Liu, assassinated with his partner Officer Ramos five days before Christmas in the city where protesters chanted death to cops, Mayor Bill de Blasio continues his anti-law enforcement agenda.”

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/01/04/pirro-de-blasio-engaged-in-anti-law-enforcement-agenda/

[KeyLargo]

Newsmax

WaPo: NY Police Feel ‘Betrayed’ by City Hall, White House
Monday, January 5, 2015 09:33 AM

By: Melanie Batley

A growing number of police officers feel “betrayed” by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Attorney General Eric Holder who called for reforms to policing practices in the wake of the shooting deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, according to The Washington Post.

The rift between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York Police Department appeared to have deepened Sunday after hundreds of officers attending the funeral of murdered policeman Wenjian Liu turned their backs in a sign of anger and defiance when the mayor rose to speak, The Wall Street Journal reported.

“We might be reaching a tipping point with the mindset of officers, who are beginning to wonder if the risks they take to keep communities safe are even worth it anymore,” Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said, according to the Post.

“In New York and other places, we’re seeing a natural recoil from law enforcement officers who don’t feel like certain people who need to have their backs have their backs.”

The latest protest by the police comes after other incidents late last month. Officers turned their backs on the mayor at the funeral of the other police officer who was killed alongside Liu, Rafael Ramos, and they did the same at an NYPD graduation ceremony.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Bill-de-Blasio-Eric-Holder-Patrick-Lynch/2015/01/05/id/616409/