NYC Mayor de Blasio: Police were disrespectful to turn backs

AP reports:

It was "disrespectful" for some New York Police Department officers to turn their backs to him during a pair of funerals for slain police officers, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday at a news conference with his police commissioner.

The act of protest were hurtful to the families of the two cops killed in an ambush last month, de Blasio said in his first public remarks on the officers' protests. He also argued that the public rebuke was an offense to the city at large.

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