de Blasio needs to do some soul searching and change who he picks as his cohorts [sharpton] or is his judgement clouded because of being married to a black woman ? If he had stood up for the NYPD, I'm sure they would have shown him respect

NYC Mayor De Blasio: Police Were Disrespectful to Turn Backs   NEW YORK — Jan 5, 2015, By JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press

   Mayor Bill de Blasio, his administration threatened to be overwhelmed by a rift with rank-and-file New York Police Department officers, on Monday condemned the thousands of cops who turned their backs to him during a pair of funerals for slain police officers.

   In his first public remarks on the officers' protests, de Blasio said the cops' searing rebuke was hurtful to the families of the two officers killed in an ambush last month and was an offense to the city at large.

   "Those individuals who took certain actions the last two weeks, they were disrespectful to the families involved. That's the bottom line," de Blasio said at a news conference held at police headquarters. "I can't understand why anyone would do such a thing in the context like that."

De Blasio has faced public police protests four times since the brazen daytime ambush on Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu: at the hospital where their bodies were taken, at a NYPD graduation ceremony and when he delivered eulogies at both officers' funerals.

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