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NYPD Chief: "Inappropriate" For Officers To Turn Backs On Mayor Again [Must Bratton Resign?]
CBSNews ^ | December 28, 2014 | REBECCA KAPLAN

Posted on 12/28/2014 10:01:21 AM PST by Steelfish

NYPD Chief: "Inappropriate" For Officers To Turn Backs On Mayor Again

By REBECCA KAPLAN December 28, 2014

New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said it was "very inappropriate" for officers to turn their backs on New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio at the funeral for slain NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos. It was the second time officers had done so since the slaying of two NYPD cops.

"That funeral was held to honor Officer Ramos, and to bring politics, to bring issues into that event I think was very inappropriate and I do not support it. He is the mayor of New York, he was there representing the citizens of New York to express their remorse and their regret at that death," Bratton said on CBS' "Face the Nation."

"At the same time it is reflective unfortunately of the feelings of some of our officers at this juncture about not just the mayor but I think about some of the many issues that are afflicting the city at this time and this particular police department," he added.

Tensions have been running high between DeBlasio and some of the city's police officers since Ramos and another officer, Wenjian Liu, were shot and killed in their patrol car earlier this month. Police union officials blamed DeBlasio for their deaths, in part because of his public support for people protesting grand jury decisions not to indict police officers who had killed two black men, Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

Bratton defended DeBlasio, calling him "totally supportive of his personnel" and praising the city for investing hundreds of millions of dollars in additional training, equipment and technology to enhance officer safety.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andrewcuomo; billbratton; billdeblasio; chirlanemccray; newyork; newyorkcity; nypd; williambratton
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To: Steelfish

Get up off your knees, Bratton.


21 posted on 12/28/2014 10:27:04 AM PST by 9thLife
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To: Steelfish

Bratton can STFU !


22 posted on 12/28/2014 10:27:22 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: headstamp 2

He’s a hack for hire. He knows who butters his bread.


23 posted on 12/28/2014 10:27:57 AM PST by 9thLife
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To: Steelfish
Police corruption... City council corruption.. Mayoral corruption.. Education System corruption.. Dock worker corruption.. Union corruption.. Sewage worker corruption.. Borough corruption.. NYC and State has it all...


24 posted on 12/28/2014 10:28:42 AM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: DoodleDawg

It’s not the “office” attending the funeral, it’s the steaming turd occupying the “office”. That phrase is a meaningless ploy to maintain some semblance of respect for asshole office holders who deserve no respect and who show no respect for the responsibilities of the office they hold.


25 posted on 12/28/2014 10:29:15 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Steelfish

DeBlasio was there mostly for to burnish his self destructive and tarnished Kommie reputation.

The phot op and representation were coincidental.


26 posted on 12/28/2014 10:29:31 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Steelfish

Once the city opens its bag of goodies at contract time the NYPD will forget their fallen brothers and all will be well.


27 posted on 12/28/2014 10:30:17 AM PST by Ted Grant
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To: DoodleDawg
Respect the office, if not the man holding it.

I respectfully submit that when the office is so profoundly diminished by a small, mean, self-serving, and corrupt person, then the office itself no longer commands respect. It can only be restored to greatness by a great person.

28 posted on 12/28/2014 10:31:15 AM PST by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: Steelfish

Yeah, Bratton and you’re his lackey.


29 posted on 12/28/2014 10:31:25 AM PST by Portcall24
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To: Steelfish
"That funeral was held to honor Officer Ramos, and to bring politics, to bring issues into that event I think was very inappropriate...

Blowjobio told the Trayvons that they were the good guys and the cops were the bad guys and two innocent dead cops was the direct result.

I hope they never stop turning their backs on him. He turned his back on them. Not that commies like cops. Unless their members of the SS/KGB, of course.

30 posted on 12/28/2014 10:31:44 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Black lies matter.)
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To: Steelfish

Whadda suckup!


31 posted on 12/28/2014 10:33:18 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: Steelfish

Go back to “Baston” Bratton ya creep.


32 posted on 12/28/2014 10:34:28 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: Steelfish

Words and actions have consequences - even for Mayors. Next time he and other Mayors/etc. may just think twice about what they do and say.


33 posted on 12/28/2014 10:37:28 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Steelfish
Has Bratton identified any of Mayor Wilhelm's actions as "inappropriate"?
34 posted on 12/28/2014 10:42:36 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Cowboy Bob
How do you separate the two?

By remembering those who held it before him, both good and bad. Same as with the presidency.

35 posted on 12/28/2014 10:42:43 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Many of the thousands of officers who turned their backs came from police departments outside of New York. Bratton has no authority over them and I’m sure they don’t care what he thinks.


36 posted on 12/28/2014 10:42:56 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: DoodleDawg

I have never understood this “respect the office”, the office is an object to be filled, if this office is shamed by the person holding it, respect is not due.


37 posted on 12/28/2014 10:43:06 AM PST by dforest
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To: Morpheus2009

I know I do and I’m 60 miles north of “fun land”.


38 posted on 12/28/2014 10:46:05 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Steelfish

Morale trickles down from the top, It does not well up from the bottom.


39 posted on 12/28/2014 10:46:50 AM PST by GOJPN
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To: Steelfish

Bratton.....politician.

Pity


40 posted on 12/28/2014 10:47:12 AM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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