New York, NY – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he will attend the funeral on Saturday for one of the two police officers killed over the weekend while they sat in their patrol car in Brooklyn.
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“I’ve been to funerals for police officers, fire officers, sanitation officers,” he told reporters at a news conference on Monday. “We’ll do the same thing and show respect for them and their family.”
The city’s largest police union began encouraging officers earlier this month to sign a letter saying the mayor was not welcome at their funeral should they be killed in the line of duty.
If I were family I would ask the mayor to kindly not attend. His rhetoric along with his buddy Mr. Al “the real deal” Sharpton created the atmosphere that emboldened this murderer