Another day another tantrum
by digby
Oy. Here we go again. Unless the mayor grovels at the feet of the police department in every way and demands that they be honored like conquering heroes and obeyed like overseers at their every demand, they are going to hold their breath until they turn blue.
One of the cops wounded in a wild Bronx shootout didn’t appreciate a hospital sympathy visit from Mayor Bill de Blasio, the wounded officer’s dad told The Post on Tuesday.
The mayor accompanied NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton to St. Barnabas Hospital overnight to see wounded plainclothes officers Andrew Dossi, 30, and Aliro Pellarano, 38.
“He wasn’t too happy about the mayor’s visit,” Dossi’s dad, Joe, told The Post at the family’s home in Rockland County.
“He (Dossi) deals with some crappy people every day and getting no support (from the mayor), come on. These are the guys in the trenches dealing with anything and everything.”
It’s terrible that this officer was shot just as it’s terrible when anyone’s shot. I’m against gun violence. I understand the perpetrators are in custody and this officer will be fine so there’s that.
But it’s now clear that even if Mayor DeBlasio got down on his knees and begged for forgiveness, it still wouldn’t be good enough. They don’t like him. He needs to go and the city needs to replace him with someone who understands that the cops are in charge of New York City.
The article states that the officer served two terms in Iraq so perhaps he hasn’t fully adjusted back to civilian life yet. Perhaps the department could help him with that problem. But police officers acting like petulant children day after day over the mayor’s alleged failure to kiss their feet isn’t going to garner them the respect and admiration they crave. It’s making them look like people who need to find a line of work in which judgment, patience, maturity and professionalism aren’t required. Perhaps they could all join boy bands.
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