Emails and Racist Chats Show How Cops and GOP Are Teaming Up to Undermine de Blasio

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Very good article, which I learned that the actor James Woods did the first tweet for cops to turn their backs on the Mayor. Article posts exerpts from several blogs.

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 "the men and women of the NYPD," 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 "say you're sorry to [NYPD officers] for having created a false impression of them." The first rally is planned to take place at Queens Borough Hall at noon on January 13.

Joe Concannon, a failed Republican State Senate candidate and current president of the Tea Party-aligned Queens Village Republican Club, is the main organizer of the burgeoning anti-de Blasio protest effort. The retired NYPD captain and former Giuliani adviser is a close ally of Patrolmen's Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch. Lynch generated national headlines -- and cheers from rank and file cops -- when he claimed that de Blasio "has blood on [his] hands" just hours after Ismaaiyl Brinsley murdered Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu..

.....At the Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn where Ramos and Liu were pronounced dead on December 20, the PBA and Sergeants Benevolent Association received word that de Blasio was on his way. It was the police union bosses' chance to embrace the raw rage of the beat cops they represented. When the mayor arrived, proceeding down a long hallway past a line of officers, the cops turned their backs to him in a show of total contempt.

"That blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall in the office of the mayor," the PBA's Lynch proclaimed afterwards. "When these funerals are over, those responsible will be called on the carpet and held accountable."

The following day, actor James Woods seized on the protest to popularize a hashtag on Twitter: #TurnYourBack. Woods' first tweet, published just hours after the spontaneous protest took place, has been retweeted more than 2500 times.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Emails-and-Racist-Chats-Sh-by-Max-Blumenthal-Backlash_Mayor_Nypd_Police-141230-115.html

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