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In reply to the discussion: NYPD COPS AGAIN TURN BACKS ON MAYOR DURING FUNERAL [View all]branford
(4,462 posts)Again, as you acknowledge, the primary issue is whether the police activities were legal and permissible, not whether anyone agrees with them. Public unions often take active positions that are disagreeable with much of the public, and it barely registers with the press. The entirety of the Guiliani administration was one long stream of public unions being disrespectful to the duly elected mayor of the city.
Note that if the officers were actually campaigning against the mayor in an election while in uniform, with political buttons on the uniform and carrying signs, the legal analysis might be different, or at least less certain. Nevertheless, the discipline would be minor, probably a warning, and would not result in termination, as many here demand.