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December 14, 2014
NYPD Excludes Mayor From Police Funerals
[From article]
“I, as a New York City police officer, request that Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito refrain from attending my funeral services in the event that I am killed in the line of duty,” the waiver states.
“Due to Mayor de Blasio and Speaker Mark-Viverito’s consistent refusal to show police officers the support and respect they deserve, I believe that their attendance at the funeral of a fallen New York City police officer is an insult to that officer’s memory and sacrifice.”
[. . .]
Sources say the revolt was sparked by the mayor’s lack of support for the NYPD following the grand jury’s decision not to indict the officer involved in the death of Staten Island man Eric Garner.
De Blasio added fuel to that fire in a press conference about the grand jury vote where he said he’d warned his 17-year-old, mixed-race son Dante to be wary around police officers.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/12/cops-to-de-blasio-stay-away-from-our-funerals/
Cops to de Blasio: Stay away from our funerals
By Tara Palmeri
New York Post
December 12, 2014 | 5:16pm
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