Poll: New Yorkers dont approve of police rebuffing mayor NEW YORK (AP) — Most New Yorkers didnt approve of police officers turning their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio at the funerals of two officers shot to death in their patrol car, or of the comment by a union leader that the mayor had blood on his hands, according to a poll released Thursday. The Quinnipiac University poll found that 69 percent disapproved of the silent protest among police at the funerals of officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu and 77 percent considered union leader Patrick Lynchs comment too extreme. The poll comes amid a rancorous time between police and the mayor that ramped up during protests over a Dec. 3 grand jury decision not to indict a police officer in the apparent chokehold death of Eric Garner and hit a fever pitch in the weeks since the officers were shot dead Dec. 20 by a mentally disturbed man who vowed online to kill two pigs. Lynch, who heads the powerful Patrolmens Benevolent Association, said after the officers deaths that de Blasio had encouraged anti-police sentiment and had blood on his hands. At the funerals, thousands of officers turned their backs on the mayor. Among the poll results, 77 percent said relations between de Blasio and the police are generally bad. Of those, 45 percent said de Blasio is to blame, while 43 percent blame police. Overall, 56 percent of New Yorkers approved of the way police are doing their jobs and about half approved of how de Blasio is handling crime. Fifty-six percent approved of the job Police Commissioner William Bratton was doing, up from his previous rating. The poll surveyed 1,182 New York City voters by phone from Jan. 7 to 14. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points. A spokesman for the mayor didnt address Thursdays poll specifically. The mayor is committed to keeping crime low, ensuring the brave men and women of the NYPD have the tools needed to keep them safe on the job, and bringing police and community closer together, spokesman Phil Walzak said. More here community.adlandpro/forums/post/2413654/ARE-WE-NOW-IN-THE-END-TIMES.aspx?id=11746220#a_post_11746220 In this Jan. 4, 2015 file photo, police officers turn their backs in a sign of disapproval as Mayor Bill de Blasio remaks are transmitted on a large video screen during the funeral of New York Police Department Officer Wenjian Liu outside of a funeral home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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