Posted on 01/06/2015 7:56:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Does believing the police are constantly under fire serve a productive function for society?
On Sunday, a relatively large group of New York police officers, sworn to protect and serve the public, turned their back on the public's elected executive, Mayor Bill de Blasio:
The show of disrespect came outside the funeral home where Officer Wenjian Liu was remembered as an incarnation of the American dream: a man who had immigrated at age 12 and devoted himself to helping others in his adopted country. The gesture, among officers watching the mayor's speech on a screen, added to tensions between the mayor and rank-and-file police even as he sought to quiet them.
This particular protest came after Commissioner William Bratton asked them not to stage a repeat of Officer Rafael Ramos's funeral. This request included the telling caveat, "I issue no mandates, and I make no threats of discipline, but I remind you that when you don the uniform of this department, you are bound by the tradition, honor and decency that go with it."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
“tradition, honor and decency”
They are like oil to De Blasio’s water.
For some reason he’s considered an “intellectual” and trendsetter on the left.
Yup...the brotherhood had to do for Liu as they had done for Ramos.
The mayor is the city. Right.
As Mayor Louis the eye-vee said: le ville, c'est moi.
Thanks for the pic, but the name more or less told the story! What we need to know is the dash silent?
thats his ballet name...
Looks like he left the gay porn set for that glamour shot.....
. Coates says that Ta-Nehisi is an Egyptian name for ancient Nubia.
hes a nubian queen?
It’s interesting how free speech by police officers = bad.
Free speech from thugs interrupting brunch = good.
I guess the First Amendment is for some people and not others?
It’s ironic this is union vs. liberal communist Demonrat mayor. Break out the popcorn.
Serpico—>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n6HkF8QcRo
He has a stupid name
I go to The Atlantic when my belly button is all out of lint.
“Got it?
Yup. I got it. Autha’ is black. “Victim” is black. Anyone not black is racist.
How does eat his carrots? Sharp end first..or the other way around?
Always a scumbag liberal to ask others to be decent.
Oh, and they always ask for decency and pity as children when caught, but when in the act of trashing cops like gang whores, they all are Obama big shot daddy with nostrils in the air.
Seriously I thought Ta-Nehisi was a racist, brain dead black chick but I find out it's a racist, brain dead black dude with a Chairman Mao hat.
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