{"id":39155,"date":"2015-01-01T02:09:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T02:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39155"},"modified":"2015-01-02T02:35:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T02:35:29","slug":"is-nypds-war-on-mayor-bill-de-blasio-partly-war-on-his-black-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39155","title":{"rendered":"Is NYPD’s War on Mayor Bill de Blasio Partly War on His Black Family?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is NYPD’s War on Mayor Bill de Blasio Partly War on His Black Family?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

AlterNet<\/a>
\n2014-12-30<\/p>\n

Terrell Jermaine Starr<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Editor<\/p>\n

The cops’ fight with the city’s progressive mayor smacks of white supremacy.<\/em><\/p>\n

In September 1992, the Patrolmen\u2019s Benevolent Association organized thousands of New York City cops<\/a> to storm City Hall<\/a> to protest then-mayor David Dinkins’<\/a> proposal for an independent civilian agency to investigate police misconduct. The officers trampled on cars, jumped barricades and took over Brooklyn Bridge<\/a>. Among their grievances was Dinkins’ refusal to give them semiautomatic weapons.<\/p>\n

One of their slogans was \u201cThe Mayor’s on Crack.\u201d The former mayor has also said many rank and file officers called him \u201cnigger.\u201d He blamed Rudy Giuliani<\/a> for being in the middle of the rowdy cops and for nearly causing them to riot.<\/p>\n

\u201cWould the cops have acted in this manner toward a white mayor?\u201d he asked in his 2013 memoir, A Mayor\u2019s Life: Governing New York\u2019s Gorgeous Mosaic<\/em><\/a>. \u201cNo way in hell. If they\u2019d done it to Ed Koch<\/a>, he would have had them all locked up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ironically, the NYPD<\/a> has come close to similarly disrespecting our current mayor, Bill de Blasio<\/a>, who is white. While police have not quite reached the same level of violent rage toward de Blasio, their fight against him is no less vitriolic. Former mayor Rudy Giuliani, NYPD union president Patrick Lynch<\/a> and many of the white power elite in the New York Police Department see in de Blasio what they saw in Dinkins: a non-white politician who dares to challenge its good ol\u2019 boy system of policing with impunity.<\/p>\n

While de Blasio is not black, his family is. His wife, Chirlane McCray<\/a>, their daughter, Chiara, and son, Dante, reflect the same population the NYPD has brutalized for decades. De Blasio campaigned on police reform and featured Dante in a campaign ad<\/a> where the teen declared that his dad would end stop-and-frisk, if elected. Once he became mayor, de Blasio ended<\/a> the city’s defense of the policing tactic. The rank and file of the NYPD took that personally. He was NYPD Public Enemy #1 from that point on…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is NYPD’s War on Mayor Bill de Blasio Partly War on His Black Family? AlterNet 2014-12-30 Terrell Jermaine Starr, Senior Editor The cops’ fight with the city’s progressive mayor smacks of white supremacy. In September 1992, the Patrolmen\u2019s Benevolent Association organized thousands of New York City cops to storm City Hall to protest then-mayor David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,26,20],"tags":[17049,15381,16390,2711,596,18948,18937,18940,18938],"class_list":["post-39155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-alternet","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-chirlane-mccray","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-police-department","tag-nypd","tag-patrick-lynch","tag-terrell-jermaine-starr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}