The city’s Health Commissioner, Oxiris Barbot, purportedly dismissed the NYPD’s need for protective equipment just as the pandemic was beginning to overrun the city in late March, telling Chief of Department Terence Monahan “I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops.”
The exchange, first reported by the New York Post, drew swift calls from police unions and others that Ms. Barbot be fired.
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