Emails and Racist Chats Show How Cops and GOP Are Teaming Up to Undermine de Blasio | Alternet tinyurl/qaj7zj3 When hundreds of cops from around the country and as far away as Canada turned their backs on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos, the NYPD officer shot to death alongside his partner Wenjian Liu by a deranged gunman, they fired the first salvo in a carefully coordinated political operation aimed at discrediting the liberal mayor and shattering the ongoing anti-police brutality protest movement. AlterNet has obtained emails revealing plans to organize a series of anti-de Blasio protests around the city until the summer of 2015. Billed as a non-partisan movement in support of ³the men and women of the NYPD,² the protests are being orchestrated by a cast of NYPD union bosses and local Republican activists allied with Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor who recently called on de Blasio to ³say you¹re sorry to [NYPD officers] for having created a false impression of them.² The first rally is planned to take place at Queens Borough Hall at noon on January 13. .... The following day, actor James Woods seized on the protest to popularize a hashtag on Twitter: #TurnYourBack. Woods¹ first tweet, published just hours after the spontaneous protest took place, has been retweeted more than 2500 times. #BlackLivesMatter Woods is one of the Tea Party rights favorite celebrities and happens to be a friend and golfing partner of Rudy Giuliani. In fact, Woods played the former NYC mayor in the forgotten post-9/11 biopic, Rudy. ³I fought tooth and nail to portray him as the genuine hero that I unequivocally believe him to be,² Woods said at the time.
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