Posted on 12/30/2014 7:53:30 AM PST by dennisw
Mayor Bill de Blasio has spent weeks expressing his respect and admiration for the New York Police Department, while calling for unity in these difficult days, but the message doesn’t seem to be sinking in.
When he spoke at a police graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden on Monday, some in the crowd booed and heckled him. This followed the mass back-turning by scores of officers when the mayor spoke on Saturday at the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos; the virtual back-turning the day before by an airplane-towed banner (“Our backs have turned to you”), and the original spiteful gesture by officers on the night Mr. de Blasio visited the hospital where Officer Ramos and his partner, Wenjian Liu, lay dead.
Mr. de Blasio isn’t going to say it, but somebody has to: With these acts of passive-aggressive contempt and self-pity, many New York police officers, led by their union, are squandering the department’s credibility, defacing its reputation, shredding its hard-earned respect. They have taken the most grave and solemn of civic moments — a funeral of a fallen colleague — and hijacked it for their own petty look-at-us gesture. In doing so, they also turned their backs on Mr. Ramos’s widow and her two young sons, and others in that grief-struck family.
These are disgraceful acts, which will be compounded if anyone repeats the stunt at Officer Liu’s funeral on Sunday.
But none of those grievances can justify the snarling sense of victimhood that seems to be motivating the anti-de Blasio campaign — the belief that the department is never wrong, that it never needs redirection or reform, only reverence. This is the view peddled by union officials like Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association
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As well as some credibility on the subject. From support of the Sandinistas, honeymooning in Cuba and sleeping with Al Sharpton, DeBlasio is hardly the guy who people think of when it comes to respect of the law and those who are tasked with keeping peace.
Much can be said for the Slimes as well - substitute "DeBlasio" for "Gruber" and "New York Police Department" with "Americans" and this article would be denigrating Americans for not believing Gruber, despite all his efforts to win them over.
They actually believe people like and trust the NY Times more than the NYPD.
It could have been written by our John Semmens.
I just happened to catch their slogan on the top right - “We do the thinking for you”
Amazing.
That's because everyone recognizes de Blasio is lying to save his political butt. He sided with lawless scumbags over the New York Police Department and its officers and has never reversed himself.
I admire them for turning their backs on the Mayor.
911 Operator: (11 Operator, do you have an emergency?
NYTimes: We have armed gunmen who have taken control of the NYTimes building...We need help NOW!...
911 Operator: I’m sorry, but you are cutting in and out...did you say that you are having an ice cream social and you want as many police officers as possible to attend?
NYTimes: No, we need HELP, NOW! There is shooting from the lower floors, do you hear it?
911 Operator: You wish to speak to the ombudsman? Hold one minute, putting you through to the Mayor’s office...
Does that mean people should go out and shoot more cops?
I know many people for where that is true. I go to NYC alot for business and, have customers and colleagues who have started conversations with “Did you see the Times this morning?” My response is a polite “no” but they will go on to cite the Times as though it were the final word on any given topic.
I’m surprised that the NYT doesn’t express outrage that the ‘hoi polloi’ would *dare* challenge their “masters”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi_polloi
Once again the NYT shows us what it is if we just look. The commie mayor of New York despises the police as it is an institution that protects morality and decency. The commie mayor lies about and defames the police. The police rightfully resent the commie mayors actions and have decided to show their disapproval. Earned disapproval. The NYT comes along and demands the police lie about their disapproval by hiding it. Lying is what the NYT does so they don’t understand why others won’t do it. The NYT cannot understand why the local royalty is not shown respect whether due and earned or not. Americans cannot be forced to respect royalty, elected or not. Given a chance the NYT would force a show of respect because they know they are the peasants betters. The NYT supports the people that would kill the police. Know them by their acts.
Did your eyes ever roll at the overreaction in the media when one of their own is murdered or injured or even arrested? All of a sudden it’s an attack on the 1st Amendment.
The de Blasio message that DID sink in, was the one that contributed to the assassination of two New York police officers. The mayor clearly supported those who would kill police officers.
The press cannot see beyond their own spittle; much less connect the dots. Perhaps the mayor and his press should take a time out and think about who they support, and how they can truly heal and apologize for their treasonous behavior toward their own.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has spent weeks expressing his respect and admiration for the New York Police Department
Look at his history, his views, his politics and his deeds in and out of office. Deeds negate his expressions of respect.
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