"I don't think anyone had seen anything like this except maybe the old-timers who were around for the Crown Heights riots," Mike the Cop said June 16, referring to the two-plus weeks of protests following the killing of George Floyd that featured sporadic violence on both sides of the picket line and several days of looting that had an impact on police tactics and attitudes that he believed wasn't fairly considered in the media coverage of the NYPD response.
He was speaking during a respite from 14 days of 12-hour tours that on a couple of occasions stretched to 20 hours, during a period when cops' regular days off were canceled to maximize street presence for demonstrations whose size, nature and duration took the department by surprise.
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