Posted on 12/28/2014 4:23:13 PM PST by Zakeet
NYPD Commissioner William Bratton said Sunday it was “very inappropriate” for police offers to turn their backs on Mayor de Blasio as he delivered a eulogy for a fallen hero cop.
“I certainly don’t support that action yesterday. I think it was very inappropriate at that event,” Bratton said on “Face The Nation” Sunday.
“That funeral was held to honor Officer (Rafael) Ramos and to bring politics, to bring issues into that event was very inappropriate and I do not support it.”
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Nice to see that former LAPD Commish still PC idiot
He was idiot for LAPD PC crowd still is
Bratton is not street cop anymore. Senior positions on the force are political ones only.
From the article:
He attributed much of the dispute between City Hall and cops to issues “far beyond race relations in this city,” including unresolved labor contracts.
“We’re the tip of the iceberg at the moment. This is about the continuing poverty rates, the continuing growing disparity between the wealthy and the poor. It’s still about unemployment issues,” Bratton said. “There are so many national issues that have to be addressed that it isn’t just policing.”
No, Bratten. This is about De Blasio and you. This is about throwing NYPD under the bus. Morphing this into a social issue ain’t gonna work (that is southern for will not work). Trying to make the mayor’s issues a national issue is lame regardless of what the almighty rev al tells you.
And while I do not doubt there are many unresolved labor issues, the sea of backs was about 2 murdered officers of the NYPD and a mayor who never had their backs.
What he says publicly and what he thinks privately, may be two different things. He is a politician, so he talks out his rear a lot.
Maybe he is more like Blue Bloods’ Commissioner “Reagan” than not.
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If I’m not mistaken, he was there but this was being displayed outside on a big screen. Which is where the back turning took place.
Funny how the cops weren’t supposed to bring politics into this when politics is precisely what caused the murders in the first place
De Blasio threw the NYPD under the bus then backed over them again.
Bratton could be a hero if he’d stand with the officers. Even if it means losing his job.
It was appropriate for the cops to tell the mayor he has lost a vote of confidence . DeBlasio lacks the ability or personality to recover
Not really. They are entitled to their feelings on the matter. How about first saying how inappropriate de Blasio has been? They are putting their lives on the line every day.
You can bet all those inside were screened for weapons and ID’ed for political persuasion.
And while I do not doubt there are many unresolved labor issues, the sea of backs was about 2 murdered officers of the NYPD and a mayor who never had their backs.’
Absolutely right!!
Mr. De Blasio was the one who brought politics into the situation from the get-go.
Now, after Commissioner Bratton has shown himself to be a gutless toady, Comissioner Bratton and Mr. De Blasio should both Resign and let others represent and lead the City.
The repeated cowardly acts of Commissioner Bratton and Mr. De Blasio will lead to other attacks on police, firefighters and ambulance workers, and all the attacks will be the result of the lack of leadership of Commissioner Bratton and Mr. De Blasio.
This is not the end, it is not the beginning of the end of terror in New York City.
TWB
Hey, the NYPD is a hard core lefty union shop. They got their dear leader but don’t like him so much.
The stop and frisk policy Bloomers had was totally unconstitutional and harassing targeted at young people in diverse areas. It had to go. That much contact with cocky cops is dangerous and enraging. It was Bloomers who should have been demonized for that policy, however, and not the cops.
In a community I lived in one time, the cops had no crime and so they started stepping up their aggression with young people. Coming home from lacrosse practice, my eldest son was stopped for no reason. The cop ordered my son to let him smell his hands for pot. My son laughed and said “You’re kidding me, right?” But the cop got more aggressive and so son warmed him he was coming home from lax and his hands were sweaty and muddy as he presented his hands for the cop to smell. No pot. Just athlete stink.
My son then did the Saturday Night live catholic school girl skit and stuck his hands in his arm pits and sniffed them deeply. That made the cop and my son laugh and defused the situation. My son was mad as hell and the cop was aggressively misbehaving, but my son was able to turn things around. He had those social skills and so did the police officer have the skills to back down and act human.
City kids and cops do not have light hearted social interactions with one another. They do not possess those skills. Glaring and glowering is the social stance. The thug culture has nothing but disadvantages.
Go to Hell, Daily News! The man who murdered the two police officers wasn’t a madman. He is a devout Muslim.
He’s a Muslim, it’s what they do.
Just curious.
Anybody in the know, what does it take to fire the chief of police in NY city?
Should have heckled him but for the funeral. They showed great restraint and respect.
Nobody.
Just like always.
Another commissioner placing decency above the good in order to further his career and his political aims.
If anyone is “political” it’s Bratton.
When a new police commissioner is sworn in, it’s customary for him to thank the outgoing commissioner and to make some complimentary remarks about his service. There was not one word of thanks or even acknowledgment in the ceremony, either from Bratton or de Blasio, regarding Commissioner Kelly, despite his outstanding record in reducing crime.
I concluded from that that Bratton has no class. Of course, de Blasio doesn’t, but I already knew that.
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