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NYPD Chief: "Inappropriate" For Officers To Turn Backs On Mayor Again [Must Bratton Resign?]
CBSNews ^ | December 28, 2014 | REBECCA KAPLAN

Posted on 12/28/2014 10:01:21 AM PST by Steelfish

NYPD Chief: "Inappropriate" For Officers To Turn Backs On Mayor Again

By REBECCA KAPLAN December 28, 2014

New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said it was "very inappropriate" for officers to turn their backs on New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio at the funeral for slain NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos. It was the second time officers had done so since the slaying of two NYPD cops.

"That funeral was held to honor Officer Ramos, and to bring politics, to bring issues into that event I think was very inappropriate and I do not support it. He is the mayor of New York, he was there representing the citizens of New York to express their remorse and their regret at that death," Bratton said on CBS' "Face the Nation."

"At the same time it is reflective unfortunately of the feelings of some of our officers at this juncture about not just the mayor but I think about some of the many issues that are afflicting the city at this time and this particular police department," he added.

Tensions have been running high between DeBlasio and some of the city's police officers since Ramos and another officer, Wenjian Liu, were shot and killed in their patrol car earlier this month. Police union officials blamed DeBlasio for their deaths, in part because of his public support for people protesting grand jury decisions not to indict police officers who had killed two black men, Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

Bratton defended DeBlasio, calling him "totally supportive of his personnel" and praising the city for investing hundreds of millions of dollars in additional training, equipment and technology to enhance officer safety.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andrewcuomo; billbratton; billdeblasio; chirlanemccray; newyork; newyorkcity; nypd; williambratton
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To: jimmyo57

Okay? That means that they were not violently opposed to it.

DeBlasio should just sat quietly in the back row and kept his ugly face out of the ceremony. But DeBlasio has no class. He interjects himself in everything. And then when the SHTF, he interjects himself in the S***.


61 posted on 12/28/2014 11:21:41 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: Steelfish

It is always inappropriate for the police to turn their backs on their mayor. The appropriate response would have been for the voters to elect a mayor who did not richly deserve to have the police turn their backs on him. Since the voters failed so shockingly in their duty, and since the cop-hating communist lacked the decency to stay away from a funeral that everyone knew he was inwardly celebrating, turning their backs on that evil socialist was the best and least inappropriate option available to the NYPD.


62 posted on 12/28/2014 11:29:53 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Steelfish

The cops should have mooned him for good measure.


63 posted on 12/28/2014 11:36:36 AM PST by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: Ted Grant

I am not totally up on the policy of the NYPD my guess is you are right on that. Money speaks loudly.


64 posted on 12/28/2014 11:39:02 AM PST by PCPOET7 (onated)
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To: Steelfish

Oh please, when did the left ever flinch from using a funeral or memorial to make a political statement? Wellstone?


65 posted on 12/28/2014 11:56:03 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Steelfish

Bratton must resign. He is nothing more than a stooge for De Blassio.


66 posted on 12/28/2014 11:57:46 AM PST by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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To: RJS1950

They always play the hypocrites’ game of demanding “respect for the office”, which they themselves have previously disdained to show, when it was to their advantage. The left thrives on disrespect, except when it’s against them.


67 posted on 12/28/2014 11:58:28 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Amen to that


68 posted on 12/28/2014 12:03:55 PM PST by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failures)
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To: Steelfish

Bratton throwing his cops under the bus. He won’t last long now as commissioner.


69 posted on 12/28/2014 12:25:47 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Steelfish

My NYPD brothers and sisters standing tall and practicing their freedom of speech - I LOVE IT! Bratton is a political hack in the PC’s chair. Here’s what my partner and I always believed: A cop sees a brown smelly lump on the ground and says “It’s crap!” A sergeant looks at the same lump gets down and sniffs it and says, “It’s crap!” A lieutenant sees the same lump gets down on his knee smells it and runs it through his fingers before he says, “It’s crap!” A captain sees the same lump on the ground and gets on his knees smells it runs it through his fingers and tastes it before he says, “It’s crap!” Finally the Police Commission come by he looks at the brown lump on the ground, gets down and smells it, runs it through his fingers, tastes it then takes a sample to send to the lab and looks up and says “I’ll let you know.”
Cops out there know this is true.


70 posted on 12/28/2014 12:42:56 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Blowjobio”

ROTFLMAO!!!!


71 posted on 12/28/2014 12:50:04 PM PST by samtheman
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To: GregoTX

“Duchbagio”

Another good one. His name just seems perfect for these distortions... and his character simply calls out for them.

He is anti-police, anti-capitalist, anti-NY, anti-American... the only thing “good” about him is that he’s not a muzzie. At least not openly.


72 posted on 12/28/2014 12:54:49 PM PST by samtheman
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To: Lazamataz

Bratton was a celebrity-obsessed politically-correct POS when he was out here in Los Angeles. LAPD celebrated when he left.


73 posted on 12/28/2014 1:26:21 PM PST by Pelham (Treason, not just for Democrats anymore)
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To: Pelham

I’m surprised. Usually, those sort move to INCREASINGLY socialist locations. New Orc is bad, but LA is worse.


74 posted on 12/28/2014 1:29:51 PM PST by Lazamataz ("Two parties, governing AGAINST the will of the people, not with the consent of the governed." --MrB)
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To: Steelfish
NYPD Chief: "Inappropriate" For Officers To Turn Backs On Mayor Again

They fart in his general direction.

75 posted on 12/28/2014 1:43:29 PM PST by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: Steelfish

these a holes Never resign


76 posted on 12/28/2014 1:58:05 PM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: tennmountainman

That is what they are after, he will be offered up in hopes they will leave the Mayor alone. They told him he had to go out and say that, Will get a cushie job somewhere else.


77 posted on 12/28/2014 2:01:04 PM PST by easternsky
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To: Steelfish

The Obama, Holder, Sharpton, Mayor, Bill De Blasio was an active accessory to the cold blooded murder of NYPD Officers Ramos & Liu!!! He must be removed from office immediately!!! End of story!!!


78 posted on 12/28/2014 2:44:07 PM PST by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: Vendome
And, as usual, DiBlASSio arrived LATE!
79 posted on 12/28/2014 3:08:48 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Steelfish

What a tragedy that the funeral featured baby-murderers like Biden and de Blasio.


80 posted on 12/28/2014 3:16:09 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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