Watch As NYPD Officers Turn Their Backs On NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio

Sickened by these barbaric acts, which sadly are a predictable outcome of divisive anti-cop rhetoric of #ericholder & #mayordeblasio. #NYPD
— George E. Pataki (@GovernorPataki) December 21, 2014

Just over two weeks ago, as NYC was turmoiling in protests following the Eric Garner chokehold death and the subsequent acquittal of the police officer involved, none other than NYC’s mayor Bill de Blasio – a person whose job is to seek to impartially preserve the peace at all costs – tried to score populist points by disparaging none other than the NY Police Department.
This is how the NY Post summarized things, granted with a dose of hyperbole:
Determined not to let a crisis go to waste, the mayor has spent the last two days cranking up the volume and the vitriol of his anti-cop agenda. Predictably, he trots out his son, Dante, to put a personal spin on police-black relations, saying he is fearful the biracial teen will end up in a confrontation with a cop. Imagine that. The city is in turmoil over the Staten Island case and the mayor throws gasoline on the fire by painting the entire police force as a bunch of white racist brutes. Has he no shame?
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‘We need a mayor to stand up with and for us,’ police union head Pat Lynch said yesterday. He said his members feel as if de Blasio is ‘throwing them under the bus.’
It got worse. Demonstrating just how frayed the relationship between the NYC mayor’s office is and the city’s law enforcement had gotten, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association issued a statement for the use of police officers requesting that Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito not attend their funerals. Here is the text of PBA’s request, courtesy of Truthrevolt:

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 12/20/2014.