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Showing Original Post only (View all)NYT rightly calls out the NYPD's tantrum: 'They Hijacked Funeral for own petty "Look-at-us gesture' [View all]
Police Respect Squandered in Attacks on de Blasio.......................
" 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. Ramoss widow and her two young sons, and others in that grief-struck family. "
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/30/opinion/police-respect-squandered-in-attacks-on-de-blasio.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
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NYT rightly calls out the NYPD's tantrum: 'They Hijacked Funeral for own petty "Look-at-us gesture' [View all]
kpete
Dec 2014
OP
The media helped exaggerate their little temper tantrum also. There were thousands of cops
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#3
Their petulant tantrum was so disrespectful to the family of their fallen colleague.
myrna minx
Dec 2014
#4
Could not have put it any better myself. Although I was going to use the
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#16
"support our brothers". . . I could have sworn that there are actually women in the nypd, as well.
niyad
Dec 2014
#25
LOL, so today we like them or hate them? I lose track. Like with Maher, Moore, etc. LOL. nt
Logical
Dec 2014
#29
NYPD should take their protest and join forces with the Westboro Baptist Church.
B Calm
Dec 2014
#62