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For de Blasio, Attack Comes Amid Tension Over Police
The New York Times ^ | 20 Dec 14 | MATT FLEGENHEIMER

Posted on 12/21/2014 3:18:04 AM PST by SkyPilot

Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke in sober terms at a news conference on Saturday at Woodhull Hospital after two police officers were shot and killed in Brooklyn.

It is the sequence that every mayor dreads: the ominous report, the scramble to the hospital and the confirmation that, yes, an attack against the police has proved fatal.

But for Mayor Bill de Blasio, the tragedy on Saturday — when two police officers were shot and killed in an ambush in Brooklyn, according to the authorities — arrived at a particularly trying moment, amid an already fractious relationship with the police.

Police union leaders and officers could be seen turning their backs to the mayor and the police commissioner, William J. Bratton, as they walked past, in a video taken at the hospital where the two held a news conference on Saturday. A written message from Edward Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, addressed the mayor directly. “Mayor de Blasio,” it read in part, “the blood of these two officers is clearly on your hands.”

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To: Rodamala

True,self loathing as public policy!


21 posted on 12/21/2014 5:18:03 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Rodamala

I wonder if DeBlaSicko’s son can now feel safer waking down the streets of NY knowing there are two less pigs to worry about. DeBlaSicko must RESIGN now!


22 posted on 12/21/2014 5:18:21 AM PST by Atticus
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To: ronnie raygun

Isn’t Marxism wonderful.


23 posted on 12/21/2014 5:19:09 AM PST by bray (Palin/Perry 16 two Ps in a pod)
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To: SkyPilot

The cop killers are anarchists. It won’t take long to prove that.


24 posted on 12/21/2014 5:22:15 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: randita
I don’t see how he survives.

I do.

Because his supporters are homosexual, God hating, racist, criminal, thieving, wicked, Communist, hateful, covetous, lazy, shameful, miserable excuse human beings.


25 posted on 12/21/2014 5:24:15 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

On the plus side, since the police are soured on “His Arrogancy”, they should no longer worry about his hand wringing and whining about being nice to murderous criminals.

Instead they need to remind the creeps that even at its height, the Mafia didn’t dare to start a war with the police, because they knew they would lose and badly.

Traditionally, they would just pop several known offenders and lose them, either in the East River or New Jersey.


26 posted on 12/21/2014 5:32:59 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: SkyPilot

The Marxist Mayor has blood on his hands.

Along with Al Sharpton, the advocate mainstream Media, Holder, Obama, the NAACP, and all the other lying race-hustler anarchists.


27 posted on 12/21/2014 5:34:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: ronnie raygun

Don’t forget the media who is just as culpable.


28 posted on 12/21/2014 5:34:59 AM PST by pas
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To: SkyPilot

The three low-life bastards, De Blasio, Sharpton and Obama, are responsible for this. They have continued to push the race envelope, always siding with the street vermin.
Within the last week, the street demonstrators were chanting: “What do we want....Dead Cops”. “When do we want it....Now”. What did we hear from the 3 low lifes.....little to nothing.
The NYPD is not going to take this lying down.
Without a doubt, this cop assasination thing is going to spread via copy cat nit-wits.


29 posted on 12/21/2014 5:35:02 AM PST by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: Atticus

look like it’s time for #TheTalk with his son.


30 posted on 12/21/2014 5:40:55 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: AlphaOneAlpha

They sent the pukes into the Mall of America yesterday.


31 posted on 12/21/2014 5:51:06 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: SkyPilot
De Blasio, the anti-Rudy. If DeBlasio was mayor on 9/11, he would have said that it was due to Bush.

I guess DeBlasio is needed to see what Marxism does to NY City.

32 posted on 12/21/2014 6:39:06 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: ExCTCitizen

Like your typical marxist/LIB/DIM., he doesn’t really care. That is what marxist/LIB/DIMNs do. They destroy civil society.


33 posted on 12/21/2014 6:41:42 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: SkyPilot

Prayers to the officers family. I hope DeBlasio will realize that a THUG left a teen without a dad, at a time young men needs their dads.


34 posted on 12/21/2014 6:45:50 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: SkyPilot

Say hello the Jeffrey Dahmer in Hell, a$$.


35 posted on 12/21/2014 6:47:33 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: SkyPilot
Asian and Hispanic....too bad they weren't black and the shooter white for the Rat Party Illuminati would be wailing in the streets if that were the case.
36 posted on 12/21/2014 7:21:46 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: ExCTCitizen
...at a time young men needs their dads.

What are you talking about?? Wilhelm knows that fathers are worthless..."the village" will raise that kid.

37 posted on 12/21/2014 7:25:21 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: SkyPilot

I wouldn’t feel badly if de lassos security team came down with a months worth of blue flu


38 posted on 12/21/2014 7:53:42 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: SkyPilot

The Old Gray Whore has it’s priorities in order; more worried about the effect on the Socialist mayor than the dead cops.


39 posted on 12/21/2014 8:03:53 AM PST by Mike Darancette (AGW-e is the climate "Domino Theory")
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To: SkyPilot

I guess someone should have told the people of NYC that a vote for de Faggio was a vote for thugs over cops.


40 posted on 12/21/2014 9:39:35 AM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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