Breaking! NY Police Union President resigns after FBI raid

[tulipsandroses]

Just heard on Chris Hayes

[Ocelot II]

1. The whole union or just the head of it?

[Chicago1980]

3. The head

[leftieNanner]

4. The head.

Serious Trumper.

[Celerity]

27. QAnon berk

Head of NYPD union gives Fox News interview with QAnon mug in background

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/17/us/head-nypd-union-qanon-mug/index.html

[viva la]

29. Hillary hater

[Nevilledog]

16. Resignation press release

Link to tweet

[TomDaisy]

21. these guys are all real pricks. For him to immediately resign like this - it must be BAD.

[msongs]

2. the whole union? like they can hire better people now? nt

[mucifer]

5. Wonderful!! Now please come to Chicago and arrest our evil trumpy police union head

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. Trump supporter, no doubt.

He is not for the people,

[SCantiGOP]

30. Huge Trumper

[winstars]

7. The FBI raided the offices of the NYPD Sergeants Union earlier...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-raids-new-york-city-police-union-headquarters-n1280810

[stillcool]

8. ooh boy...someone's got the goods on him

must be all wrapped up, and tied with a bow.

[Captain Zero]

9. Grabbing that Pension to buy some cigs in Sing-Sing.

Isn't that why they resign? Grab the pension before they go down.

[tymorial]

15. Actually, it's stamps.

Stamps are used for trade these days.

I didn't correct you to be a dick. I just find it really interesting

[Sanity Claws]

17. Huh?

I remember green stamps from the 1960s, which you could redeem for toasters and the like. But I don't think that's what you mean. What do you mean?

[reACTIONary]

23. Found this....

https://www.ranker.com/list/items-used-as-currency-in-prison/brandon-michaels

In the U.S., postage stamps are actually considered legal tender. So, they are the only form of prison currency that could actually be used legally in everyday life outside of prison.

Stamps hold a high value because snail mail is one of the few sanctioned forms of communication prisoners have with the outside world. And as a bonus, inmates are allowed to have stamps, making them ideal currency.

[littlemissmartypants]

25. Thanks for the link. Lots of interesting time killers on that site.

Perfect for my currently very short attention span. ❤

[tymorial]

31. Postage stamps.

[ZonkerHarris]

18. That is interesting. Hadn't heard that.

[RockRaven]

10. Resigned as union head or resigned from the department?

Or both?

[malaise]

11. Good

Rec

[empedocles]

13. May be a lesson for 'up the ladder' trumpers?

[tishaLA]

12. Going to jail. Going directly to jail.

Not passing GO. Not collection $200.

Our jaws will probably drop at how bad his public corruption is.

[Dorian Gray]

14. Mullins

is a piece of excrement. The whole SBA was awful. Glad he's resigned. Maybe it'll take some of the wind out of their MAGA sails.

Hope whatever the FBI has on him is ironclad. lol.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. What a piece of right-wing work he is....

From the NBC article on the raid, that says the FBI raided his home along with the union office:

snips....

The union leader's acerbic Twitter posts have included calling a city councilman a “first class whore,” calling a former health commissioner a “b----,” and in response to the 2014 officer-involved shooting death of Michael Brown, a Black teenager, and the subsequent protests, he said, “Ferguson, Missouri was a lie and a nation of police have been under attack ever since.”

Mullins also remains a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump.

The SBA's bylaws require Mullins to continue working as an NYPD sergeant, but records show he is not currently assigned a specific post. And while he was paid $133,195 by the city in 2020, his full-time job was running the SBA, which pays him an additional salary.

Mullins was paid $88,757 by the union in 2019, according to the SBA's most recent paperwork, which listed him as a trustee.

That adds up to around 200 grand ultimately out of tax-payer's money to a guy that appears to be just a GOP parrot.

Not my home city but it is concerning that it may be indicative of many other cop unions around the nation.

KY.......

[Dorian Gray]

20. Yep

thrilled he resigned. Don't know what he did, but hope it was a doozy and that he'll go to jail for it.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

22. Police unions around the democratic world do seem, mostly, to be cut from the same cloth.

Distinct from the police forces, mostly, that they legally represent as bargaining agents..

[PSPS]

26. They're more of a political fundraising outfit

The way it works is that they get the dues, donations generated from misleading robocalls, etc., and then use it to help elect "like minded" politicians. This is why, in many cities, the RW racist sadists (or certainly a sympathizer) get a financial "campaign donation" boost to become mayor or some other public office that is in charge of the actual cops.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

32. Where I am the union also deploys police to the pack courthouse hearings to intimidate,

including lawyers and judges and journalists, any who offend their worldview of crime and punishment.

Police unions aggressive politics is harmful to the greater community food, I think.

Maybe time to legislate police unions as aggressively as the right wing legislate other labor,, no more police carve outs.

[Cryptoad]

24. Nuttin like a Bent Copper,,,,,,