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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeBlasio Praises New York's Peace in Face of Ferguson Violence
Last edited Fri Aug 15, 2014, 06:55 AM - Edit history (1)
http://nypost.com/2014/08/14/de-blasio-praises-new-yorks-peace-in-face-of-ferguson-violence/Yes I know it's Murdoch's NY Post but I haven't seen anything similar anywhere else -
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For decades and decades weve had the tradition in this city of respecting and properly managing peaceful protests and the right of people to express themselves.
And I give the NYPD a lot of credit.
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Our good mayor must have been on another planet during the Occupy protests.
He's still working overtime to atone for the Eric Garner death-due-to-choke-hold press conference faux pas last week, widely criticized for his including Al Sharpton on an apparent same level as P.C. Bill Bratton.
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DeBlasio Praises New York's Peace in Face of Ferguson Violence (Original Post)
LiberalElite
Aug 2014
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Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)1. WTF?
Next the LAPD chief will claim his department is the most well-behaved in the country....
Bizarro world.
merrily
(45,251 posts)4. Bratton was Chief of the LAPD from 2002 until 2009. His wiki says he reformed the LAPD
after the 1992 riots.
He arrived there ten years after the riots, though. Why even mention them in his wiki?
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)2. OMG!
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)3. The occupy protests were 'properly managed', eh? Nice revisionism. n/t
BeyondGeography
(39,370 posts)5. Inappropriate
He is using this to kiss up to the cops post-Eric Garner. Stfu.