{"id":179203,"date":"2021-02-16T05:05:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T02:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nypd-union-head-refuses-to-apologize-for-insults\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T05:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T02:05:56","slug":"nypd-union-head-refuses-to-apologize-for-insults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nypd-union-head-refuses-to-apologize-for-insults\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYPD union head refuses to apologize for insults"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYPD union head refuses to apologize for insults<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The head of the NYPD\u2019s sergeants union \u2014 who is facing up to a two-month discipline over social media<\/a> posts that include calling the Big App<\/a>le\u2019s former health commissioner a \u201cbitch\u201d and a lawmaker a \u201cfirst class whore\u201d \u2014 has defended his actions and says he refuses to apologize for them.<\/p>\n

In a Monday letter to union members, which was obtained by The Post, Sergeants Benevolent Association president Ed Mullins declared, \u201cI WILL NEVER BE SILENCED.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Post previously reported that the Civilian Complaint Review Board police watchdog on Friday recommended a trio of charges \u2013 two for offensive language and one for abuse of authority \u2014 against Mullins for the social media posts.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you may have read, CCRB has filed charges against me for advocating for your rights and for calling out gutless politicians and bureaucrats who lie and put police officers\u2019 lives and safety at risk,\u201d Mullins wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n

One of the CCRB\u2019s recommended counts of offensive language against Mullins was in connection to a now-deleted tweet in which Mullins called then-congressional candidate and City Councilman Ritchie Torres a \u201cfirst class whore\u201d in September.<\/p>\n

\u201cI rightfully called him a \u2018first class whore\u2019 for his unscrupulous moral values and selling out our safety for his political ambitions. My comment was in direct response to Torres\u2019 political campaign against the men and women of the NYPD,\u201d Mullins wrote.<\/p>\n

Mullins continued, \u201cIt came at a time of tremendous turmoil in this City when members of this Department were the targets of bottles and bricks being thrown at them. Nor shall we forget police vehicles being firebombed and overturned. Make no mistake, I stand by my words. Nothing has changed. And I offer no apology!\u201d<\/p>\n

The union boss then referred to his tweet from last May when he described then-health commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot as a \u201cbitch\u201d on the official Sergeants Benevolent Association\u2019s Twitter account.<\/p>\n

The tweet was in response to a Post report revealing Barbot had remarked to NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan, \u201cI don\u2019t give two rats\u2019 asses about your cops\u201d over a request for more masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

The CCRB\u2019s second recommended charge for offensive language stems from that tweet. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Fred Davie, the chair of the Civilian Complaint Review Board.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cI referred to her as a \u2018bitch\u2019 who had \u2018blood on her hands\u2019 for her callous, unpleasant, difficult and malicious disregard of cops. Let\u2019s not forget that members of the NYPD were not given protective equipment until we were well into the Pandemic, and that many of our members had already died when she dismissed us as undeserving of masks,\u201d Mullins said in the letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cMayor de Blasio\u2019s Commissioner later apologized to the NYPD and acknowledged that her deplorable statement against supplying front line police officers with essential N-95 masks was wrong. Again, I stand by my words. Nothing has changed. And I offer no apology!\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Mullins noted in the letter that since he has been the SBA president he has been \u201crepeatedly\u201d investigated by the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau and \u201cthreatened with discipline \u2013 including termination.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese unrelenting efforts to silence me will not succeed. As long as I am privileged to be your President, I will continue to fight for you, your safety and the safety of your families,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mullins referred to the CCRB charges as an \u201cattack\u201d that is \u201cnot merely an attack on the SBA\u201d but \u201can attack on all Union speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is also another obvious salvo in the war on police unions, another naked effort to silence police unions across our nation. It cannot be tolerated. It will not be tolerated,\u201d Mullins said, explaining, \u201cThe SBA will never be intimidated by the City, the NYPD or CCRB.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBe assured that this obvious attempt to silence me will be met with strong and swift legal action,\u201d Mullins railed. \u201cI will continue to fight for the labor rights of police officers; I will continue to advocate publicly in support of the issues which impact the health and safety of our members; and I will continue to publicly expose the cowardly politicians who are trying so hard to destroy the City we saved from ruin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mullins went on, \u201cThe threat made to me of losing 60 days is laughable \u2014 they can have 100 days; in fact they can take them all. I do not care about their threats of discipline simply for doing what is right and what is guaranteed by the United States Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBe assured: CCRB has targeted the wrong person!\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe dirty little secrets of the NYPD and of elected officials deserve to be made public!\u201d<\/p>\n

The third recommended discipline \u2014 abuse of authority \u2013 against Mullins stems from another tweet in June when Mullins shared an image of the arrest report of the mayor\u2019s 25-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n

Mullins did not address that matter in the letter to union members.<\/p>\n

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea still has the final say in discipline.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Shea made a public pledge and signed an agreement with CCRB chair Fred Davie last week to follow the department\u2019s new \u201cdiscipline matrix\u201d \u2014 a lengthy set of guidelines for how to reprimand cops for internal violations.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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