NYPD Chief of Patrol Retires Over Suspected Tension with Bill de Blasio
NYPD Chief of Patrol Fausto Pichardo filed for retirement on Tuesday after a more than 20-year career with the department.
NYPD Chief of Patrol Fausto Pichardo filed for retirement on Tuesday after a more than 20-year career with the department.
More than 470 New York City police officers have been injured in the line of duty due to anti-police protests since May of this year, according to data through September 24 from the department.
Quentin Tarantino’s latest film The Hateful Eight is in the midst of a box office meltdown, and one police union head claims the film’s financial failure is all due to a promised boycott from the boys in blue.
At least one police union has seemingly abandoned its plans to boycott Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight in the wake of the director’s participation in an anti-police brutality rally in October and his subsequent escalating rhetoric against law enforcement.
New York City’s police union responded swiftly Tuesday to what it called Quentin Tarantino’s “latest outburst,” in which the director doubled down on comments he made at an anti-police rally in the city last month.
The president of New York City’s largest police union called for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino’s films after the director participated in an anti-police rally in the city on Saturday.
During the meetings Mayor Bill de Blasio had with five different New York City police unions on Tuesday, the mayor’s senior aides called top Democratic New York lawmakers on the city and state levels. They urged lawmakers to slam the Patrolman’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch and other officers for turning their backs on the mayor, DNAinfo reported.