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Media Reports “NYPD Saluted De Blasio At Funeral”… Now For ‘The Rest Of The Story’…
Last weekend, by some counts, 10,000 of the police present at the funeral of Officer Ramos turned their backs on Mayor de Blasio. Heads on the Left exploded in anger at the ‘rudeness’. Commissioner Bratton warned officers not to do it again this week.
So media was all atwitter over what the police reaction might be at the services for Officer Liu.
It seemed the hatchet might have been buried when multiple media outlets reported that the police had saluted de Blasio at the wake.
Yet, that wasn’t exactly the full story.
Two police officers were stationed at the door to the funeral home. Commissioner Bratton and the First Deputy Police Commissioner Benjamin Tucker were glued on either side of de Blasio as they walked up to the door. The salute by the two officers was for their superior officers as is customary, not a salute directed specifically for de Blasio, and not a reflection of a cooling of tensions.