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In reply to the discussion: Do you support NYPD members turning back on DiBlasio? [View all]branford
(4,462 posts)It was also entirely legal and permissible. There's a reason why no one from the mayor's office has even anonymously suggested discipline is appropriate or forthcoming and the union felt comfortable and confident with the action. The comparisons between the police and military are also just wrong as a legal matter.
This topic has been explored and discussed ad nauseum on numerous threads. It is astonishing how many purportedly pro-union, pro-free speech and pro-public employee Democratic liberals suddenly sound like Scott Walker or the Heritage Foundation when the topic concerns police unions.
The back-turning was puerile and provocative, but it's hardly the worst incident between a NYC mayor and the police, and I'm confident that Mayor deBlasio can handle the heat. Democracy is sometimes and little messy, yet the republic endures.