Hard to imagine a US politician doing this.

https://www.thenation.com/blog/193457/how-survive-cop-coup-what-bill-de-blasio-can-learn-ecuador

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But de Blasio has a model other than Dinkins he could follow. In late 2010, Ecuador’s president faced down a cop revolt and won, emerging even stronger and more popular.

Nominally the police protest was about pay and grades, but it was led by cops with ties to a right-wing opposition party. Cops poured into Quito’s streets, taking over the National Assembly building. Similar police protests spread to other cities, with police supporters blocking roads and shutting the country down leading Rafael Correa to declare a state of emergency.

Correa was the opposite of conciliatory: he headed straight to Quito’s main police barracks. And just like the NY cops who turned their back on de Blasio last night, the cops in Quito engaged in symbolic action meant to delegitimize Correa. The president then launched a confrontational speech: he loosened his tie, opened his shirt, repeatedly pointing to his chest and saying: “You want to kill the president, here he is. Kill me, if you want to. Kill me if you are brave enough!” (a good example of how politics, in Latin America, is still Jacobin, unmediated and taking place in the public square). Tear gas was fired, with the canisters nearly hitting Correa and his wife, who had to retreat to a nearby hospital.

Finance and resource-extraction capital were quick to try to leverage the crisis, with financial experts blaming the unrest on Correa’s rejection of the logic of austerity. “The [government] finally realizes that maybe their current spending could not continue,” said a portfolio manager at Federated Investors. Correa had already defaulted on billions of dollars in bond debt passed on to him from his predecessors. “Illegitimate,” Correa called that debt. And Ecuador was at that moment also negotiating higher taxes on foreign oil companies.

The cop coup almost worked. A number of traditional left parties had by that point become alienated from Correa over a number of issues, and the urban “middle class” was almost buying the argument, pushed by oligarch-controlled media, that Correa was “authoritarian” and a “dictator.” But the president’s defiant stand gave his supporters time to organize counter-demonstrations. Most of the army, which extracted Correa from the cop-besieged hospital, stayed loyal. And Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and the rest of South America made it clear they wouldn’t tolerate Correa’s ouster. Eight people were killed and nearly 300 wounded in the police riot.

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But you have to remember, that his people remember what a police state looks like and do not wish to return to that.

He is one of the most popular leaders in Latin America and rightly so.

That whole police coup attempt would have scared any of our politicians out of their wits. However, the American people are not as opposed to a police state as the people of Ecuador are at this point.

so I'm surprised that they would have criticized him at all, they loved HIM.

What they did to Dinkens however was unconscionable.

So yes, they do have a lot of power, but I'm skeptical about the Giuliani comment, it doesn't fit with his love for the NYPD.

Giuliani was a corrupt, weak, incompetent moron. I could not believe when I saw the country giving him credit for anything re 9/11. He had been claiming there was 'no threat to this city' for years, when he was warned that a threat might be imminent.

Just like Bush, he ignored all warnings about an attack.

An earlier clash with Rudy "911" Giuliani: