As N.Y. Police Call Leftist Mayor To Account . . . U.S. Voters Closely Watch How GOP Uses New Clout
By DEXTER DUGGAN New York City police finally were fed up with their city’s left-wing mayor, Bill de Blasio, who, along with other liberal Democrat politicians, had been fanning dangerous fears of deadly racism by police. The law officers emphatically showed their contempt for de Blasio by turning their backs on him in emotional, dramatic hospital and funeral settings after an unstable attacker assassinated two police officers at random in Brooklyn on December 20 before he killed himself. The attacker had posted messages indicating he was taking revenge for the deaths of two blacks during confrontations with police. Like other liberal Democrats, de Blasio seemed to have thought he could stir the racial pot repeatedly without earning himself the resentment…Continue Reading