The longtime head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, Ed Mullins, is not known for subtlety. In fact, few would be surprised if his calling card read “indelicate,” “undiplomatic” or even “impolitic.”
But two recent incidents involving his injudicious use of words have led the NYPD’s watchdog agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, to recommend that he face disciplinary charges for using offensive language and for abuse of authority tied to Twitter posts in which he called the head of the city’s Health Department a “bitch” and a City Councilman a “first-class whore.”
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