New Yorkers Overwhelmingly Disapprove of Police Turning Their Backs on Mayor De Blasio
Looks like Lynch has overplayed his hand.
About 69 percent of New York City voters disapprove of police officers turning their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio during the funerals for two police officers who were shot and killed in December, a Quinnipiac University poll of nearly 1,200 New Yorkers found.
Roughly 77 percent said police union leader Patrick Lynch’s comments that de Blasio’s administration is partly to blame for the shooting deaths are “too extreme.” And 52 percent agreed police discipline has broken down.
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