Is NYPD's War on Mayor Bill de Blasio Partly War on His Black Family?

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http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/nypds-war-mayor-bill-de-blasio-partly-war-his-black-family



In September 1992, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association organized thousands of New York City cops to storm City Hall to protest then-mayor David Dinkins' proposal for an independent civilian agency to investigate police misconduct. The officers trampled on cars, jumped barricades and took over Brooklyn Bridge. Among their grievances was Dinkins' refusal to give them semiautomatic weapons.

One of their slogans was “The Mayor's on Crack.” The former mayor has also said many rank and file officers called him “nigger.” He blamed Rudy Giuliani for being in the middle of the rowdy cops and for nearly causing them to riot.

“Would the cops have acted in this manner toward a white mayor?” he asked in his 2013 memoir, A Mayor’s Life: Governing New York’s Gorgeous Mosaic. “No way in hell. If they’d done it to Ed Koch, he would have had them all locked up.”

Ironically, the NYPD has come close to similarly disrespecting our current mayor, Bill de Blasio, who is white. While police have not quite reached the same level of violent rage toward de Blasio, their fight against him is no less vitriolic. Former mayor Rudy Giuliani, NYPD union president Patrick Lynch and many of the white power elite in the New York Police Department see in de Blasio what they saw in Dinkins: a non-white politician who dares to challenge its good ol’ boy system of policing with impunity.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. My opinion?

Yep! They think he is a race traitor.

[sendero]

2. That and..

... hardball union contract negotiations. It's about the money.

[tblue]

3. They're giving him the "Obama treatment"

Sure seems that way. They're devils.

[True Blue Door]

4. It's war on New York City. These thugs haven't learned their place yet.

[Kalidurga]

5. The police have decided to not do their jobs

ironically this seems to be making the city safer for POC.

[Kalidurga]

6. OOOPs sorry

Yes, this is obviously meant to be a war on DeBlasio's family.

[malaise]

7. Never forget that Bloomberg

considered it racist of de Blasio to even mentioning that he had an African-American family - one of the most absurd statements I have ever heard.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/nyregion/bloomberg-says-de-blasio-has-run-a-racist-campaign.html?_r=0
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said in an interview published on Saturday that Bill de Blasio, one of the leading candidates to succeed him, had run a “racist” campaign.

In an interview with New York magazine, Mr. Bloomberg said he considered it racist of Mr. de Blasio to promote his mixed-race family. Mr. de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, is black and their teenage son, Dante, appears in his father’s campaign ads.

Mr. Bloomberg added that he did not think that Mr. de Blasio was a racist. But he said, “It’s comparable to me pointing out that I’m Jewish in attracting the Jewish vote.”

At an appearance in Brooklyn on Saturday with his wife and their 18-year-old daughter, Chiara, Mr. de Blasio called Mr. Bloomberg’s remarks “very, very unfortunate and inappropriate.”

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8. Yes

I think so.

[oberliner]

9. I don't think so

I think their opinion of him would be the same if his family was white.

[B2G]

10. Fully half of the NYPD are minorities

So I'm thinking no.

[ashling]

11. That's a rhetorical question

right?

[AlbertCat]

12. Gawd! I'm sick of the prejudiced South!

Oh wait......

[mountain grammy]

13. yes, I also believe this is race based, the NYPD is racist.

The facts are clear.