Today in an op-ed The New York Times criticized NYPD officers and the union for turning their backs to the Mayor on several occasions since the tragic killing of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. The Times referred to the actions of these officers as disgraceful acts and goes after a snarling sense of victimhood throughout the department. Accoring to the Times: Mr. de Blasio isn’t going to say it, but somebody has to: With these acts of passive-aggressive contempt and self-pity, many New York police officers, led by their union, are squandering the department’s credibility, defacing its reputation, shredding its hard-earned respect. They have taken the most grave and solemn of civic moments — a funeral of a fallen colleague — and hijacked it for their own petty look-at-us gesture. In doing so, they also turned their backs on Mr. Ramos’s widow and her two young sons, and others in that grief-struck family. The times closes with: The grieving rank-and-file need to recognize this and also see the damage that many of their colleagues, and their union representatives, are doing to trash their department’s reputation. Sound off in the comments. Do you agree or disagree with the New York Times Editorial Board? ACT: JusticeForEricGarner.org
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:06:46 +0000
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