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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Who do the NYSlimes actually think they are talking for about respect... of all things.
Lmao!
And supports law and order.
This article is the disgraceful part!
The police were right. DeBlasio had already sided with the rabble-rousers and rioters!
De Bl Ass will not apologize.
The new york times is so bad that the birds will not allow their cages to be lined with it anymore. It only makes them sick and they end up crapping alot more.
I remember when dissent was patriotic.
What a pantload.
I disagree.
This editorial reads like an Onion article. I cannot believe they are serious, even remotely.
Wow, just wow. I think the word hate is not appropriate for fellow citizens that think this way, no? Too early? Are we still at dislike?
Respect and admiration?
He said his son was in danger from the coos and backed Al Sharpton during the “we want dead cops” march.
ny times, de blasio, obama = 0 credibility
Blind squirrel, stopped clock.
He’s welcome to his opinion about his son. It might even have some truth to it, in that modern “diversity” culture has made itself into something more rotten than it was before. And it ends up tarring everybody with the same brush.
Their adored Communist thug mayor is suffering in the public eye so the Communists at the New York Times go into overdrive to protect him. So transparent even a low information voter can see it.
The NYTimes has no credibility regarding the NYPD. They’ve spent years viciously attacking the police - all through de Blasio’s mayoral campaign and prior to that. Do they really expect anyone outside their left-wing fringe of supporters to take their pronouncements regarding police seriously?
As for the other, the devil is in the details. Did de Blasio agree with the message (which would be horribly, horribly wrong) or with the mood (which is what sympathetic liberals do)?
To see this issue juxtaposed with his lamentations about his son seems to suggest false representation to me. Someone said that the remarks about his son coaxed on the attack. I fail to see how. They sound like standard liberal oversensitivity to me.
And there are adult ways to deal with this. Descending to the mayor’s childishness makes everyone childish.
I’m probably also going to get the childish antics aimed at me.
They managed to get the officers to act out, which is what liberals eat up.
Not unsympathetic here. It’s difficult not to start acting childish when others who are supposed to be adults act childish.
But giving in turns the place into a kindergarten. Is there room for a Father in Heaven here?
Passive-aggressive contempt and self-pity are two emotions with which Times readers and the Times editorial board are fully acquainted; they are, in fact, relished on an almost daily basis. Along with the horrible prose style.
There are NYPD hats showing up everywhere! Another flat out crock of lies...
The Ramos family knew who the backs were turned to and why. They knew beforehand it would happen I would think. I guessed they would turn their backs if he showed up.
If he had any respect for the police at all he would resign.
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