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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio blasts police who turned their backs at cops' funerals
FOX News ^ | 1/6/2015 | Associate Press

Posted on 01/06/2015 4:24:09 AM PST by rochester_veteran

NEW YORK – Mayor Bill de Blasio, his administration threatened to be overwhelmed by a rift with rank-and-file New York Police Department officers, on Monday condemned the thousands of cops who turned their backs to him during a pair of funerals for slain police officers.

In his first public remarks on the officers' protests, de Blasio said the cops' searing rebuke was hurtful to the families of the two officers killed in an ambush last month and was an offense to the city at large.

"Those individuals who took certain actions the last two weeks, they were disrespectful to the families involved. That's the bottom line," de Blasio said at a news conference held at police headquarters. "I can't understand why anyone would do such a thing in the context like that."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; alsharpton; andrewcuomo; billdeblasio; chirlanemccray; communist; marxist; mayor; newyork; newyorkcity; rafaelramos; socialist; wenjianliu
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One can earn the respect of others, however; when one has to demand respect, it's already lost! It wasn't about the families of the murdered Officers as you tried to shamelessly deflect to, Mayor de Blasio, it's YOU who has lost the respect of NYPD!
1 posted on 01/06/2015 4:24:09 AM PST by rochester_veteran
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To: rochester_veteran

While his wife wears baggy, faded jeans to said funeral. What a piece of work!.


2 posted on 01/06/2015 4:27:36 AM PST by mazda77
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To: rochester_veteran

I can’t understand why anyone would wear baggy faded jeans to a cops funeral when you’re the mayors wife.


3 posted on 01/06/2015 4:28:25 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: rochester_veteran

Desperate flailing.

Mayor isn’t going to convince anybody that this was aimed at the families. For it to have even a hope of flying, he’d need to get the families of the dead cops to support him, and I don’t think that’s gonna happen.


4 posted on 01/06/2015 4:28:45 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: rochester_veteran

One of the problems with the modern 24 hour news cycle is that pols (and others) feel the need to respond to everything that happens to them. In this case, saying nothing would have benefited de Blasio. Instead, he feels the need to respond to everything lest the “enemy” get the upper hand. Sometimes silence is golden.


5 posted on 01/06/2015 4:28:47 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
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To: rochester_veteran

If I’m one of the deceased’s family members I would be tempted to come out and rebuke De blassio. He’d probably go after their death benefits, though.


6 posted on 01/06/2015 4:29:08 AM PST by GoDuke
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De Blasio slams cops for ‘disrespect’ despite his wife wearing jeans to funeral http://www.examiner.com/article/de-blasio-slams-cops-for-disrespect-despite-his-wife-wearing-jeans-to-funeral

While thousands of present and former members of the New York City Police Department have recently displayed their displeasure and anger at Mayor Bill de Blasio by turning their collective backs on him, the mayor fired back by referring to those officers as “disrespectful,” but made no mention of his wife sporting denim blue jeans to the funeral of assassinated Detective Wenjian Liu this past Sunday.

As reported by The Washington Post on Jan. 5, 2015, accompanied by his ever present Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, the city’s mayor Bill de Blasio (born: Warren Wilhelm, Jr.) verbally opened fired at the numerous members of the NYPD who have turned their backs on him in recent appearances. As de Blasio stated, the offending officers were “disrespectful to the families involved. They were disrespectful to the families who had lost their loved ones. I can’t understand why anyone would do such a thing in the context like that.”

Yet as caught by a sharp-eyed individual who goes by the Twitter nom de plume JMCW, New York City’s First Lady Chirlane McCray was photographed at Det. Liu’s funeral dressed in a fashion more suitable for Casual Friday. As caught on film, the grief-stricken wife of the mayor was in attendance in what appeared to be a somewhat faded pair of denim blue jeans.


7 posted on 01/06/2015 4:31:48 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: rochester_veteran

Are police officers in NYC unionized? If so, I wonder how many officers listened to their union leaders and voted for this jerk. Unions love commies.


8 posted on 01/06/2015 4:32:53 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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New York City's First Lady wears jeans to funeral.

 

Deblasio wife wearing baggy ol jeans to cops funeral

9 posted on 01/06/2015 4:33:25 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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"Those individuals who took certain actions the last two weeks, they were disrespectful to the families involved. That's the bottom line,"

DeBlasio actually believes this crap? Talk about denial!

10 posted on 01/06/2015 4:33:40 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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"I can't understand why anyone would do such a thing in the context like that."

And that's the problem, you libtard, socialist POS... Respect is earned, not demanded. It is truly amazing how libtard scum wander through life always believing that they are somehow exempt from responsibility resulting from their words, actions, and policies, simply because "they" believe it is "right". Liberalism truly is a mental illness.

11 posted on 01/06/2015 4:33:44 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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Don't get me wrong. I'm pro-cop, and I absolutely believe they've got legitimate gripes and concerns. I think they mayor is entirely in the wrong.

That said, if I were advising them, I'd tell them to lay off the back-turning at funerals.

12 posted on 01/06/2015 4:34:46 AM PST by TontoKowalski
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The families know that the disrespect was directed to the Mayor. That is, to a mayor who deserves no respect.

Deblasio, the German American that changed his name to curry political favor with the New York Jews can be disrespected for the simple reason he is due no respect.


13 posted on 01/06/2015 4:35:44 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: rochester_veteran

This SOB had no problem politicizing what happened in the killing of these blacks by the police. He still refuses to acknowledge the fact that it was his decision to stop all these people selling cigarettes individually that started this mess.


14 posted on 01/06/2015 4:44:01 AM PST by gingerbread
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DE Blasio lacks the wit to comprehend his own monumental disrespect—or, more likely, assumes that others do.


15 posted on 01/06/2015 4:44:21 AM PST by Savage Beast (The U.S. Judiciary is part of the Praetorian Guard. So is the U.S. Press.)
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Dear Mayor de Blasio... NUTS!


16 posted on 01/06/2015 4:44:55 AM PST by Freeport (The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
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To: Lurker

It’s a communist lesbian thing. You would not be expected to get it.


17 posted on 01/06/2015 4:45:29 AM PST by all the best
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To: Common Sense 101

Talk about the mayor, after killing his parents, pleads mercy for being an orphan.


18 posted on 01/06/2015 4:48:33 AM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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changed his name to curry political favor with the New York Jews

Front runner for bizarre post of the year!

I promise you can find more Rabbi Wilhelms than you can find Rabbi De Blasios!

19 posted on 01/06/2015 4:49:48 AM PST by hlmencken3 (“I paid for an argument, but you’re just contradicting!”)
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The Mayor and his wife’s best friend, Al Sharpton, holds a march where they chant for killing cops.

Cops then get killed.

Maybe the mayor would understand if people marched through NYC demanding he be killed?


20 posted on 01/06/2015 4:53:42 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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