Another banner bashing Mayor de Blasio set to take to the skies over Hudson River

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44. “De Blasio: Apologize to the NYPD!!” is not in any way equivalent to open season on black people.

Such ludicrous and misleading hyperbole makes the police unions look moderate in comparison, and diminishes the credibility of reasonable protesters seeking reform of the department.

The banner is stupid and unhelpful, but certainly does not constitute a racial threat, and is actually fairly banal by the historic standards of communication between most public employees and their unions and the City, no less during labor negotiations.

In any event, the banner was purchased by a retired officer living in Florida. Therefore, who do you actually suggest should be disciplined, even terminated, for the banner? All officers, those who agree with it, those who refuse to condemn it, random officers to prove a point, etc.? Hint: no one can be legally disciplined.