Daily Mail – by Michael Zennie
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was booed today by the newest members of the New York Police Department as he delivered a speech at the academy graduation ceremony.
Several boos could be heard at Madison Square Garden as de Blasio took the podium in front of 884 newly-minted cops.
At least one cadet could be heard shouting ‘traitor!’ the New York Post reports.
Then, when de Blasio remarked that the new officers would be confronted with problems they didn’t make, someone from the crowd shouted, ‘You created them!’ The heckler was met with applause and cheering.
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Booed: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was heckled and booed as he spoke at the NYPD academy graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden
Mayor de Blasio ignored the boos and thanked the new recruits for their service to the city of New York
The incident shows that mistrust has taken hold even among the NYPD’s newest officers.
On Saturday, hundreds of cops turned their backs on de Blasio as he spoke at the funeral for Officer Rafael Ramos, one of two NYPD cops gunned down by a fanatic who was enraged about recent police brutality cases – including the death of Staten Island resident Eric Garner.
The Mayor has come in for sharp criticism from the police union after expressing sympathy for protesters who took to the streets in the wake of a grand jury’s failure to indict the NYPD cop who allegedly put Garner in a chokehold.
In a speech following the grand jury decision, de Blasio, whose children are half-black, recounted how he told his teenage son Dante how to deal with the police and that he might be discriminated against by the NYPD.
Patrolman’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said de Blasio had ‘blood on his hands’ in the death of Ramos and his partner Officer Wenjian Liu, who were assassinated on December 20 as they sat in their squad car in Brooklyn.
At least one of the new NYPD academy graduate shouted ‘traitor!’ as the mayor took the podium in front of 884 newly minted cops
Tense: The Mayor (left) and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton (second from left) stood on stage with police union president Patrick Lunch (second from right) – who has said de Blasio has ‘blood on his hands’
Thousands of friends and family members filled Madison Square Garden – along with the nearly 900 recruits
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said on Sunday that the strife between de Blasio and the rank-and-file officers is likely to last ‘for some time.’
City Hall and the Patrolman’s Benevolent Association are in the midst of rancorous contract negotiations that are set to go to arbitration – further exacerbating the strife.
The Mayor and Lynch – his most outspoken critic – came face-to-face on Monday when they posed together for a photo for an award that the PBA gives out for the top squad sergeant from the graduating class.
Lynch’s son Kevin is among the graduating class.
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If I was mayor, they’d be new fires, not new hires. These pigs are employees. Who screwed up the employer/employee relationship?
HAHAHAHA
Hey deblazio… your hit squad is getting too big for its britches.
look at how those scum bags get to sit down for the ceremony. In the military half the fun is guessing who will pass out from locking their knees before the 3 hours is up.
Treason’s lot even before they are out of cop shop. If I was the Mayor I would fail the whole class then and there. Tell them better luck in a different job. The American police are so out of control that they think nothing of treason. I see a big problem here. Then to declare war on the citizen and keep this act of theres up. Get rid of all of them. There is good reason they are being shot at. You just don’t prove your memtal cases and then still be allowed to walk out on the street with a gun. Self defence on sight of such as those who today were the badge in America. They are asking for it and escalating it out of control for themselfs. Nothing there left to respect in what they have proved themsels to be.