NYPD officer rips cops for turning backs on mayor: Parents see black kids ‘killed by police over and
NYPD officer rips cops for turning backs on mayor: Parents see black kids ‘killed by police over and over’
David Edwards
29 Dec 2014 at 12:25 ET
New York City Police Officer Adhyl Polanco speaks to Democracy Now (screen grab)
New York City Police Officer Adhyl Polanco on Monday condemned his colleagues after they turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio at the funeral for a slain officer.
Polanco told Democracy Now‘s Amy Goodman that he attended the wake for Officer Rafael Ramos on Saturday, and he pointed out that the family had called for unity and peace.
“How come we cannot honor what they are calling for?” he asked. “Mayor de Blasio came to the police department that had a lot of issues before he got to this police department. Mayor de Blasio came with the attitude that I can fix this police department, but this police department has a culture that is going to make whoever tries to change that culture, like, impossible, including the mayor.”
“It’s absolutely wrong to turn their backs on the mayor, this is not what we’re made of,” Polanco added. “This does not represent the police department, this does not represent how, when a family calls for peace and unity, you’re going to have a 100 officers doing the absolute opposite.”
Polanco pointed out that police union head Patrick Lynch, who has led the opposition to de Blasio, was wrong to say de Blasio had blood on his hand because he had warned his biracial son that police might treat him differently.
“How can a parent who has a black child, how can a parent who has seen millions of kids been stopped by stop and frisk — and you know the statistic of that — how can the parents of black kids see kids get killed by police over and over, how can parents see kids be summoned illegally, being arrested their own building for trespassing, and being the treatment they get from the police department — not from all officers because not all officers are the same — how can you not responsibly have that conversation with your son?” he asked. “I have to have the conversation, and I’m a police officer.”
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I think it's awesome that this cop has the balls to stand up to the goon squad called NYPD, and
to call NYPD's back-turning stunt what it is: cowardly & disrespectful ...
Hat's off to you Sir 
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