New York City Police Officers Turn Their Backs on Mayor After Shooting

WNYW, the local New York City Fox affiliate, reports that New York Police Department officers turned their back on Mayor Bill de Blasio after two of their own were shot execution style earlier today in Brooklyn:

“Look what happened: this is video of the mayor arriving for this evening’s press conference on the shooting. You can see officers turning their backs on the mayor as he approached the lectern,” said the local host.

“Let me show you what you didn’t see in the official press conference. In this phone video given to me by police sources at the scene, you see officers including PBA president Pat Lynch turning their backs on Mayor de Blasio as walked into [the] hospital to speak with a police officer’s family,” the reporter added.

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