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January 4, 2015 by Daniel Greenfield 8 Comments

To everyone who criticizes this, the issue is simple.

You don’t get to hang out with Sharpton, endorse protesters calling for the death of cops and then put on your fake mourning act at a police funeral.

Bill de Blasio going to a police funeral is like David Duke going to the funeral of a Klan lynch victim. It’s disgusting hypocrisy. You can’t hang out with people who promote racist violence one day and then pretend you care when the violence kicks in.

Thousands of NYPD cops turned their backs on Mayor de Blasio on Sunday outside a Brooklyn funeral home as he eulogized a murdered NYPD officer inside.
As de Blasio addressed the loved ones of Detective Wenjian Liu in the Aievoli Funeral Home in Bensonhurst, the sea of blue watching the funeral on huge TV screens outside showed their disgust for Hizzoner by turning around as he spoke.
Officers first turned their backs to de Blasio when he visited the hospital where Ramos and Liu were treated. They then also turned turned their backs to him outside the church where Ramos’ funeral was held Dec. 27.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton asked officers not to repeat that silent protest at Liu’s funeral Sunday.
US Rep. Peter King (R-Long Island) said as he arrived for Liu’s funeral, “I’ve been critical of the mayor, [but] today is not the day for that [protest]. I understand why the police did what they did [at Ramos’s service]. I think the police have made their point. [But] that should be behind us now. I wouldn’t do it myself.”

Is it behind us? Is De Blasio going to stop renting out City Hall to Sharpton? Is he going to stop endorsing mobs accusing police of genocide?

Is he going to stop behaving in ways that get police killed?

If he isn’t, then nothing is “behind us”.

Politicians and the media license every possible extreme of behavior by BlackLivesMatters protesters, but throw a hissy fit when the cops turn their backs.

We have their approved racist protesters randomly bursting into businesses and yelling and demeaning people who are just sitting down to lunch. Meanwhile the police simply turn their backs and that’s a crime.

Two plainclothes cops, outside the funeral home, made no apologies for their back-turning protest. “He [de Blasio] turned his back on us,” one officer said.
“I can’t stand even looking at him,” the other cop said. “He has no friends here.”

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.