‘Mayor’s Hands Dripping With Our Blood’: Police Tragedy Complicates Relationship With Mayor

The slaying of two police officers Saturday afternoon in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, may add strain to an already tense relationship between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police community.
‘Mayor’s Hands Dripping With Our Blood’: Police Tragedy Complicates Relationship With Mayor
New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton (R) and Mayor Bill de Blasio at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 20, 2014, following the killing of two New York City police officers. The tragedy further fuels the tension between the mayor, whose campaign promises include a vow to reform the police department, and the police, who feel that he has not supported them enough in recent weeks. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Shannon Liao is a native New Yorker who attended Vassar College and the Bronx High School of Science. She writes business and tech news and is an aspiring novelist.
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