De Blasio calls funeral protests ‘disrespectful’
Source: Washington Post
A day after police officers at a funeral again turned their backs on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, the mayor said officers who used the service to stage a protest “showed disrespect” to the mourning families and the people of New York.
“They were disrespectful to the families involved,” de Blasio said Monday. “They were disrespectful to the families who had lost their loved ones. I can’t understand why anyone would do such a thing in the context like that.”
De Blasio’s comments Monday marked his first extended public reaction to the criticism he has received from union leaders and some officers, which extended to demonstrations at the funerals for the police officers who were shot and killed in Brooklyn last month.
He spoke while appearing at a news conference alongside Bill Bratton, the police commissioner, and other police officials, an event aimed at discussing the city’s crime rate, which dropped 4.6 percent in 2014 from a year earlier. De Blasio heaped praise on the department for its efforts in 2014 while simultaneously dismissing “the loudest and most disrespectful voices” he said have dominated the news cycle.
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- The day after the funeral is when he should have said this.
- Actually, most NYers will have about the same likelihood of seeing the above airplane messages, as they are likely to see a tiny-ass airplane's message flying above the skyscrapers. Way to waste those unions dues!
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