There was something disorienting about the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association protest Oct. 24 outside a Queens school where Mayor de Blasio was about to hold a town-hall meeting, and it wasn’t union President Pat Lynch calling the Mayor “a coward” and declaring, “He should’ve worn his chicken suit.”
As PBA insults go, these were mild compared to what the Mayor has endured—look no further than Mr. Lynch nearly four years ago claiming that prior remarks by the Mayor about police and their treatment of minorities meant he had “blood on the hands” for the assassination of two NYPD officers by a Baltimore man with long histories of criminal behavior and mental illness.
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