On December 20th, NYPD Officers Raphael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were assassinated as they sat in their police cruiser on a Brooklyn street. The murders were twisted forms of retaliation for several high-profile deaths of black men who had resisted arrest or otherwise had physically assaulted police.
Prior to the murders, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio had sided with angry protesters and alleged that he had told his biracial son to be fearful of New York police.
Days later, Officers Ramos and Liu were assassinated.
During a press conference shortly after the killings, NYPD police literally turned their backs on de Blasio as he spoke- a sign of protest against the man who had turned his back on the very people who protect their communities.
During the funeral of Officer Ramos, de Blasio spoke, but hundreds of police officers turned their back on him again.
NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who serves as both a police officer and a politician, urged police to not make such bold statements at the funerals of police as they are there to remember their colleagues, not make political statements.
Still, on Sunday, as police mourned their fallen fellow officer, many police officers bravely defied the request from the top-cop and turned their backs on de Blasio as he spoke again.
While some on the left call such maneuvers petty or inappropriate, the Liu family grieves for the loss of a son, a brother, a friend and the tight-knit police community, seemingly, cannot forget and forgive the slights that helped create the environment that spurred a cowardly killer to murder Officers Liu and Ramos.
http://www.tpnn.com/2015/01/04/nypd-officers-send-another-message-to-de-blasio-during-second-slain-officers-funeral/
http://www.tpnn.com/2015/01/03/after-being-two-hours-late-to-one-nypd-officers-wake-mayor-de-blasio-did-this-at-officer-lius-wake/
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