With their backs to the Wall, the NYPD must turn theirs backs on Mayor de Blasio

Just last night, in the Bronx, two more New York city police officer were shot and wounded by a street thug, all too willing to take down these arresting officers with lethal, deadly violence.  This latest outrage of lawless carriage comes in the wake of yesterday's public condemnation of his police force by Mayor De Blasio.  The Mayor repudiated his officers for again turning their backs - in a public street, not inside the building holding the solemn memorial service - to his screen image when the Mayor was speaking at the funeral of slain officer, Wenjian Liu Sunday afternoon.  Mayor de Blasio lambasted his officers for what he pretended to perceive was their "alleged" show of disrespect for the slain officer and his grieving family.

Of course, obvious to anyone with even a smidgen of God-given common sense (street smarts, if you will, and New Yorkers have an abundance thereof) is that these officers were doing nothing of the kind toward Officer Liu. Indisputably they love him like the brother to them he was.  Therefore, they would and did nothing to deminish his hero memory.  Indisputably, these thousands of police officers  instead, peaceably engaged in the Constitutionally protected act of symbolic speech to demonstrate their sincerely held belief that the Mayor had caused an increase in minority thug antipathy toward them, which, in some unquantifiable but still real fashion, contributed to the vicious anger and brutal violence unleashed without provocation or mercy by the murderer of these two NYC police officers.

Indisputably, de Blasio is a fool, or worse, to believe he can fool the vast majority of New Yorkers into thinking that the police officers' mere refusal to watch him speak at this funeral was a mean spirited act of disrespect to the slain officer.  "His honor's" sordid attempt to smear these police officers by seeking to identify himself as True One in spirit with the dead officer, as an actual admirer of slain officer Liu, as the only one providing dignity and honor to his grieving family defies credulity.

More to the point going forward, what possible New York City public safety objective is advanced by the Mayor denouncing and condemning his own police force.  Even were he to truly believe the police "acting out" in this fashion was inappropriate, why highlight and bring massive public attention to the perceived misdeeds of these officers in such a way that thug members of the public - and with 8 million residents, there are some number of them - are told that the NYPD is an illegitimate, out of control entity, bent on engaging in evil acts?

One obvious conclusion (not true necessarily, but I await a more plausible explanation) is that Mayor de Blasio perceives himself to be "at war" with 34,000 NYC police officers.  He appears to be committed to a fundamental restructuring of the police department, so they will meekly comply with  Co-Mayor Sharpton's mandated inner city policing policies, beginning, but surely not ending with, the de facto acceptance of all "broken window" crimes, so long as they are perpetrated by a minority person.

One stupid man, one very arrogant man apparently "thinks" he can break the Will, Spirit and Life Saving Judgment of more than 34,000 steely eyed, hardened guardians of civilization in the greatest City in the World?  Not going to happen in his misbegotten life time.  Regrettably, he most assuredly will keep trying over the course of too many life times of New York's Finest.