If DeBlasio intends to continue being the Mayor, it looks like he has some fence-mending to do and it is not with Al Sharpton – who set up all of the protests throughout the country after the Eric Garner grand jury results.  Where is Rev. Al, did he “tuck tail,  run and hide?”

December 22, 2014

Former New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had contributed to police officers turning against him by running an “anti-police campaign” for mayor in 2013.

Kelly appeared on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday to discuss the killing of two NYPD officers. When asked by host George Stephanopoulos if it’s fair for critics to partially blame de Blasio for the death of the two cops, Kelly said the mayor had set off a “firestorm” by raising concerns over his son’s safety.

“Obviously, there’s a lot of emotion involved when two police officers are killed,” Kelly said. “When the mayor made statements about how they had to train his son, who is biracial, to be careful when he’s dealing with the police, I think that set off this latest firestorm.”

On Saturday, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were shot dead in their squad car by a gunman identified by police as 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley. Brinsley had reportedly posted on social media boasting of his plan to kill two cops in revenge for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of police.

The head of the largest police union in New York City, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, accused de Blasio and those protesting the deaths of Brown and Garner of inciting violence that led to Saturday’s shooting.

“There’s blood on many hands tonight,” NYC PBA president Pat Lynch said Saturday. “That blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall in the office of the mayor.”

Kelly served as police commissioner from 2002 to 2013, and is a staunch defender of the city’s stop and frisk policy — which DeBlasio promised to reform during his mayoral campaign.

“Quite frankly, the mayor ran an anti-police campaign last year when he ran for mayor,” Kelly told ABC.

“You’re talking about his opposition to stop and frisk,” Stephanopoulos asked. “Is that what you think was anti-police?”

“I think a lot of the rhetoric was — at a time when the police had a 70 percent approval rating,” Kelly replied. “Obviously that’s not the case now.”

Kelly’s remarks echoed those of former New York Gov. George Pataki (R), who disparaged both the mayor and Attorney General Eric Holder:

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani also criticized DeBlasio, accusing him of “allowing protests to get out of control” following a grand jury’s decision to not indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo for using a fatal chokehold on Garner.

“If I was in the situation that Mayor DeBlasio is in, and I feel sorry that he’s in this situation, I would give a speech to the Police Department and I would explain that maybe I was wrong about a few things,” he said during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”

Giuliani also blamed the murder of the two officers on anti-police propaganda.

“We’ve had four months of propaganda, starting with the president, that everybody should hate the police,” Giuliani said. “I don’t care how you want to describe it — that’s what those protests are all about.”

Giuliani said that protests across the country after the deaths of Brown and Garner, even if they were peaceful, had led people to think that the police were bad.

“That is completely wrong. Actually, the people who do the most for the black community in America are the police,” he said.

Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, DeBlasio praised the slain officers and strongly condemned the “heinous individual” responsible for the attack.

“When a police officer is murdered, it tears at the foundation of our society,” he said. “It is an attack on all of us. It’s an attack on everything we hold dear.”

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New York Police officers turned their backs on Mayor DeBlasio Saturday in a gesture of displeasure following the execution-style killing of two of their colleagues.  DeBlasio was making his way to a presss conference at Woodhull Hospital, where the two slain offices, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, ere pronounced dead earlier int the evening.

Cellphone video obtained shows a number of officers pointedly turning their backs as he passes.  Police unions, which have had a combative relationship with the mayor in the wake of the Eric Garner killing and subsequent protests, were quick to condemn DeBlasio in the wake of the killings.

There’s blood on many hands tonight.  Those that incited violence on the streets under the guise of protest that tried to tear down what New York City Police did every day.  We tried to warn it must not go on, it cannot be tolerated, “Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) President Patrick Lynch said.  “That blood on the hands starts at City Hall in the office of the mayor.  The Sergeants Benevolent Association tweeted, “The blood of two executive policy officers is on the hands of Mayor DeBlasio.  May God Bless their families and may they rest in peace.”

Lynch’s comments come aft the PBA denied it had issued a widely circulated memo that made comments including, “The mayor’s hands are literally dripping with our blood because of his words, actions, and policies,” according to Capital New York.

DeBlasio’s office later issued a statement, cited by CBS News, saying, “It’s unfortunate that in a time of great tragedy, some would resort to irresponsible, overheated rhetoric that angers and divides people.  Mayor DeBlasio understands this is the time when we must come together to support the families and friends of those brave officers New York City lost tonight – and the entire NYPD community.

December 21, 2014

Two police officers were shot dead in New York “with no warning and no provocation”, by a gunman who later killed himself, said the police chief.

NEW YORK: Two New York uniformed police officers were assassinated in their patrol car in Brooklyn in broad daylight Saturday (Dec 20) by a gunman who subsequently killed himself.

“Today, two of New York’s finest were shot and killed with no warning, no provocation,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told a news conference. “They were quite simply assassinated.”

The two officers were “ambushed and murdered” – shot in the head – as they sat in the front two seats of a marked NYPD police car, Bratton said.

The motive for the attack was under investigation but there were no indications so far of any connection to terrorism, Bratton said. The officers had been assigned to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood to address complaints of violence around housing projects in the area.

Bratton named the assailant as 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley. He walked up to the car and fired his weapon several times through the passenger window, according to Bratton. Neither officer had the opportunity to draw their weapons and may never even have seen their assailant.

Brinsley then fled on foot and entered a nearby subway station. “While on the platform, Brinsley shot himself in the head. Took his own life. A silver semi-automatic firearm was recovered on the subway platform near the suspect’s body,” said Bratton.

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