Over at the New York Review of Books, Michael Greenberg delves into the complicated relationship between the citizens, politicians, and policemen of NYC in the wake of Eric Garner‘s death. Among the details that became public: What happened in the bars after the funerals of two murdered policemen.
Shortly after the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos, who was shot and killed with his partner Wenjian Liu late last year, Greenberg quietly entered a nearby bar in Queens, where dozens of NYPD officers had gathered, asking why they were held so much enmity for Mayor Bill De Blasio, whose comments about his own biracial son angered the police and prompted a slowdown:
Didn’t the blacks and the protesters merit at least a portion of their contempt? No, they said, I didn’t understand, the protesters didn’t count. They were just “followers,” “rabble-rousers,” “anarchists,” “know-nothing kids looking to make a scene.” When I suggested that this surely wasn’t true of every one of the 30,000 demonstrators on December 13, one of the officers shot back, “It was de Blasio’s fault that all those people showed up. He told them it was okay to spit in our faces. They knew we had been given orders to let them run wild.”
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