Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, spoke to hundreds of people the other day at the funeral of Police Officer Wenjian Liu who was shot execution-style in his police car along with another Officer Rafael Ramos. While delivering the speech, around half of the police officers attending said funeral turned their backs to Bill de Blasio in a move of resistance towards de Blasio. These police officers believe that the mayor just doesn't seem to "get it" and how this is affecting the city and its inhabitants. This speech is really dedicated to the American people. The execution of those two cops was a response to the deaths of unarmed citizens in other parts of the country that became gobbled up and inflated by a 24/7 news broadcast, since as we know the major news conglomerates do this to provoke and saturate the public. He said earlier that his biracial son "had to be trained" in the event of ever being confronted in front of cops; because of the statement made, this caused many weary citizens as now everyone could see that even the mayor of New York City couldn't trust his own cops. Back to the speech, ethos and pathos is shown when he almost starts to tear up talking about the events that have occurred. Throughout rest of the speech, he attempts to relate with the public and sympathize with everyone, but as you've probably seen in the news cycle, nobody really is taking his word for the things he's saying in effect essentially creating more tension and distrust. The cops who turned their backs to the mayor during it all just comes to show that there really isn't any cooperation and trust between the local government and the police force which really is a clear problem in this day and age. You need that trust and cooperation and this has now pretty much caused a lot of other cities to look at themselves and see if they have it.
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May 2015
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