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In reply to the discussion: Chris Rock: "I can think of 3 reasons why NYPD turned their backs on Mayor DeBlasio" [View all]ucrdem
(15,512 posts)3. Lovely family
and yeah he was targeted, by whom I'm not sure but the NYPD has a lot of unsavory connections and it wouldn't surprise me if one of them instigated this stupid stunt using DeBlasio as an Obama surrogate. Another Benghazi as it were. From what I've seen it doesn't seem to have been spontaneous and the media are dutifully assisting so hmm.
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Chris Rock: "I can think of 3 reasons why NYPD turned their backs on Mayor DeBlasio" [View all]
kpete
Dec 2014
OP
Sums it up nicely...but you know these cops have their free speech rights to defy their boss
randys1
Dec 2014
#1
I'm not sure that the 'rights to free speech' are permitted whilst one is on duty...
underahedgerow
Dec 2014
#2
I dont think it was racist but it was clearly disrespectful and disgraceful
cstanleytech
Dec 2014
#43
Technically speaking, de Blasio is not their 'boss'. I suppose their 'boss' is
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#8
Stand corrected, so toe as in the toe up to the line? I dont know what I was thinking
randys1
Dec 2014
#14
Well, I'm no big defender of Bratton or de Blasio (who was fully on board with
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#15
If he were a Republican and the cops were doing this the media would accuse them of treason....
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2014
#23
Fox would be calling them "out of control government union thugs" right now n/t
arcane1
Dec 2014
#27