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Re: We Need Our Police to Be Better Than This 

By: Zimbler0 in FFFT3 | Recommend this post (1)
Thu, 01 Jan 15 1:50 AM | 42 view(s)
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Apparently, Bill de Blasio disrespects police because he has bi-racial children and acknowledges racism

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/the-crimes-of-bill-de-blasio-marrying-a-black-woman-having-bi-racial-children-acknowledging-racism/

First, what exactly did Bill de Blasio say that has landed him in so much trouble. On December 3, after a StatenIsland grand jury decided not to indict the officer whose chokehold killed Eric Garner, de Blasio said that he was “astonished by the decision” and that it was a “very painful day for so many New Yorkers.” De Blasio also made the following unspeakable comments about how he and his wife Chirlane have worried about the safety of their son, Dante:

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Before officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were killed, Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association police union (PBA) had already accused de Blasio of throwing police “under the bus” with his comments. The PBA even circulated a petition demanding that de Blasio not attend funerals of NYPD officers killed in the line of duty.

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Outside of the NYPD, the sun-denied former NY governor George Pataki tweeted that he was “sickened by these barbaric acts which sadly are a predictable outcome of divisive anti-cop rhetoric of #ericholder & #mayordeblasio. #NYPD.”

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OCU- The entire article is at the link. Zim.




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We Need Our Police to Be Better Than This
By: clo in FFFT3
Thu, 01 Jan 15 1:31 AM 		Msg. 06984 of 65535

IMO, the cops that turned their backs on de Blasio should be disciplined. Give them a few days off, unpaid.
If they want the job, WORK, or leave!

We Need Our Police to Be Better Than This

Yes, cops are under stress. But they’re trained to rise above emotional responses. It’s part of having the badge and the right to use force.

In 1951, Harry Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War. The two never got along, but that wasn’t why Truman canned him. “I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was,” explained Truman after the fact. “I fired him because he wouldn’t respect the authority of the president.” You expect soldiers of all ranks to understand the need to respect the chain of command, regardless of personal feelings.

Soldiers—and cops, too.

Which is one big reason the display by members of the New York Police Department at the funeral of slain patrolman Rafael Ramos is particularly disturbing. At Ramos’s funeral service Saturday, NYPD rank-and-file—along with members of police forces attending from around the country—turned their backs when Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered his eulogy. This was a very public fuck you to a politician widely perceived by conservatives and law-and-order types as weak on crime and in the pocket of social-justice warriors. Yet the cops’ protest illustrates exactly what drives so much fear of the police: the worry that cops react emotionally and impulsively in situations that call for cool rationality and a reliance on training and strategic restraint. “It wasn’t planned,” said one of the protesters. “Everyone just started doing it.”

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/31/we-need-our-police-to-be-better-than-this.html?via=newsletter&source=CSAfternoon

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