Posted on 08/28/2021 11:20:36 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The largest police union in New York City is planning to file a lawsuit if the city tries to force police officers to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
“If the City attempts to impose a vaccine mandate on PBA members, we will take legal action to defend our members’ right to make such personal medical decisions,” Police Benevolent Association (PBA) President Patrick Lynch said in an email obtained by the New York Post.
So far, the city hasn’t indicated whether it will impose a vaccine mandate on the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) officers, he added.
City workers in New York must either get a COVID-19 shot or submit to weekly testing, Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, announced last month. More recently, de Blasio announced that teachers and other school staffers must get a vaccine or face termination.
While New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said on NY1 last last year that officers wouldn’t be required to get a COVID-19 vaccine, that has changed.
Asked this week if he would support a mandate, Shea said he would.
“One hundred percent. I think we’re well past that time. We lost three members last week, two of them to COVID, and I think it’s all unnecessary to some degree,” he said. “Everyone, I think, all across this country really should be embracing these vaccines.”
Shea noted that the Pfizer vaccine was fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration before adding, “I think everyone should be lining up to get it that hasn’t gotten it yet.”
The NYPD has approximately 36,000 officers; it’s the nation’s largest police force.
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Blue flu time.
Unfortunately, the only reason why the NYPD is doing this is that they have a sizable number of officers who refuse to get vaccinated. From what I’ve seen, most unions have been falling all over themselves to accept these vaccine mandates because at least 75% of their members are Karens and emasculated men.
About that “weekly testing”.....
ELON MUSK had 4 tests done in dome day-—IN HIS OFFICE.
Same test kits
Same staff doing tests
Controlled environment
2 were Negative
2 were positive
ALL in a matter of hours.
These tests are as reliable as a screen door on a submarine.
FWIW, I think it’s far more likely the mostly refusenik rank and file have been sold out by their leadership.
Just a hunch.
And not just this union...
They also want to stick it to comrade diblasio- sort of like, “Try it and see what happens.” They hate diblasio and with good reason. I have two nephews on the NYPD and my dad was NYPD for 23 years.
Diblasio will mandate the CCP virus vaccine for the NYPD as he’s walking out the door- this way he won’t have to deal with the mess.
Note to rank and file everywhere: I’d think twice before ratifying any new contracts for a while.
Whatever happened to “my body, my choice?”
Yes please. Go on strike.
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