Just if anyone was wondering WHY the NYPD hates Mayor Bill DeBlasio so much: he openly admitted he sometimes worried about his black son and what would happen if he got into confrontations with the police.
That is literally all he did and now they want to ruin him.
I’m aghast.
THE ONLY REASON WHY THEY WOULD LEAVE HIS SON ALONE IS BECAUSE OF HIS FATHERS POSITION… after that, he would be in the same boat like the rest of us. Thats the ONLY reason why cops wont fuck with him
America can’t stand being reminded of the trials of Black life, but even more so when politicians do the reminding. The reaction was the same when President Obama had the nerve to admit that, if he’d had a son he’d have looked like Trayvon Martin. They lost their minds.
He mentioned that he and his wife have told their son how to conduct himself if he ever gets stopped by the police, so the NYPD now loathes him for “throwing them under the bus” to the point where they turned their backs on him at services for one of the murdered officers.
If you ever wonder where this absolutist with-us-or-against-us mentality about law enforcement comes from, welp.
This is true but not the whole truth— It’s worth noting that he ran his campaign on an anti stop and frisk platform and on the idea that cops are using excessive power and racism. He didn’t just say that one thing, it was probably his most popular add, and he ran his campaign with that focus, that cops weren’t doing their jobs right. He has also clashed with the NYPD over twitter, when the NYPD put out a statement saying that the protesters all had “blood on their hands” he replied stating that was extremist and untrue, and that we must realize this was not the fault of people asking for justice.
They hate him because he’s the first mayor to speak out against them, he’s the first mayor not to cozy up next to the NYPD and smile and do as they want. So they’re disrespecting him and acting like complete power hungry assholes. And he’ll probably lose the next election for it. The cops are an extremely powerful segment in the politics of new york— their endorsements carry lots of weight, as do the huge amounts of money they donate, and the volunteer time they put in to elections.