Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association president Pat Lynch (left) railed against Mayor Bill de Blasio. Photo: William Farrington/Chad Rachman
[From article]
The NYPD’s rank and file reacted with fury Thursday at being “thrown under the bus” by Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said he and First Lady Chirlane McCray had trained their mixed-race son, Dante, about the “dangers” posed by cops.
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De Blasio had called the Garner case “profoundly personal for me,” saying that because of “the dangers [Dante] may face, we’ve had to literally train him . . . in how to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him.”
The comments angered cops, with one saying, “Did he tell his son to be wary of his police bodyguards, that he should be afraid of them as they pick him up at school and drive him where he needs to go?”
Lynch railed that de Blasio effectively told New Yorkers to teach their kids “that they should be afraid of New York City police officers.”
“That’s not true!” Lynch shouted. “Our city is safe because of police officers. All of our sons and daughters walk the streets in safety because of police officers. They should be afraid of the criminals. That’s what we should be teaching.”
http://nypost.com/2014/12/04/police-union-prez-rips-de-blasio-over-eric-garner/
Police fury at mayor’s racial smear
By Larry Celona, Kirstan Conley and Bruce Golding
New York Post
December 4, 2014 | 6:24pm
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[From article]
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.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/05/de-blasio-is-throwing-cops-under-the-bus/
De Blasio’s slur against NYPD imperils us all
By Michael Goodwin
December 5, 2014 | 1:22am
New York Post
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