Vice News Op-Ed:The Cops Who Turned Their Backs at the NYPD Officer's Funeral Are the Most Threateni

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https://news.vice.com/article/the-cops-who-turned-their-backs-at-the-nypd-officers-funeral-are-the-threatening-protesters-of-all

"President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio publicly asked that the funeral of fallen NYPD officer Rafael Ramos be a politics-free event. Of course, any issue specifically raised by both the president and the mayor is de facto politicized by virtue of such mention alone. Ramos's death — he was one of two cops killed in a Brooklyn ambush — was unavoidably situated in this mercurial political moment surrounding police violence and counter-violence against cops. Apolitical was never an option.

A strange point of unwitting agreement then emerged between protesters and police. Protesters refused to pause their politics around the funeral. Marches continued, hundreds strong in New York and beyond, and a "die-in" was staged in Grand Central station the day after de Blasio asked that they be halted. A sizable contingent of the NYPD performed its own act of political demonstration: Several hundred cops turned their backs on the mayor as he spoke during the funeral service for Ramos, a renewed and spectacular assertion of the view, amplified by New York's largest police union, that the city was attacking its cops. The protesters wouldn't stop or pause, and nor would the police. But one of these acts of defiance was far more dangerous than the other."