Why NYC police don't want mayor at police funerals
The New York City police union have a new waiver that each police officer can request that Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito cannot attend their funeral should they be killed in the line of duty
The New York City police union have a new waiver that each police officer can request that Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito cannot attend their funeral should they be killed in the line of duty
New York City's rank-and-file police union is urging its members to ban Mayor Bill de Blasio from their funerals.
The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association posted a link on its website telling members not to let Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito "insult their sacrifice" should they be killed in the line of duty. The waiver states:
The New York Post reports the mayor and council speaker issued their own statement in response:
The mayor customarily attends such funerals.
The union's president has said officers haven't felt supported in the wake of a chokehold death of an unarmed black man.
At a press conference after the Eric Garner grand jury decision not do indict a New York police officer, Mayor de Blasio said that he had wanred his聽17-year-old, mixed-race son,聽Dante, to be careful around police officers.
鈥淲e鈥檝e had to literally train him, as families have all over this city for decades, in how to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him,鈥� the mayor said.