December 19, 2014

• Do we need a registry of bad cops? Radley Balko, Washington Post

December 21, 2014

• Two NYPD cops get killed and ‘wartime’ police blame the protesters. Have we learned nothing? Steven W. Thrasher, The Guardian
• Conservatives’ sick reaction to NYPD officer killings: Blame Obama and de Blasio, Luke Brinker, Salon
• Who Is Actually To Blame For The Deaths of Two NYPD Cops? SM Gibson, The Anti-Media
• Whom Do the Police Serve? Adam Lee, Daylight Atheism
• Rudy Giuliani: 2 NYC Cops Were Killed Because Obama Told Everyone To ‘Hate The Police’, Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress
• Conspiracy Theory Suggests the NYPD Killed Two Police Officers To Drum Up Support, Moreh B.D.K., Counter Current News
• Rudy Giuliani Lies While Blaming Obama For The Murder of Two New York Police Officers, Jason Easley, PoliticusUSA
• Another Cop Assassinated In Retaliation For Police Killings, Jackson Marciana, Counter-Current News
• “A predictable outcome of divisive anti-cop rhetoric”, Ophelia Benson, Butterflies & Wheels
• The memo wasn’t sent formally, maybe, Ophelia Benson, Butterflies & Wheels
• The NY Police Union’s Vile War with Mayor De Blasio, Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
• Rep. Peter King Lies, Says DeBlasio Never Denounced Calls For Violence Against Police, karoli, Crooks and Liars
• ‘God Doesn’t Want Us To Push An Agenda,’ Fox News Priest Explains, LeftOfCenter, Crooks and Liars
• Graham On Death Of NYC Police Officers: ‘I Blame The Shooter’, Caitlin MacNeal, Talking Points Memo
• Battered and Blue, Jamelle Bouie, Slate
• Let’s Blame Conservatives For All the Killings They’re Responsible For, Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
• Fox News Seizes On NYC Cop Killing To Bash Obama, Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress
• NYPD recounts killer’s history of violence, Azi Paybarah, Capital
• NYPD Union President Evokes Fear in Black New Yorkers in Aftermath Police Shootings, Terrell Jermaine Starr, AlterNet
• The Police Aren’t Under Attack. Institutionalized Racism Is. Kareen Abdul-Jabbar, Time
• The Real Reason Police Hate Bill de Blasio, liamcdg, Daily Kos

December 22, 2014

• De Blasio’s nightmare, Maggie Haberman, Politico
• Police Unions Hated Giuliani & Bloomberg Too, Christopher Robbins, Gothamist
• NYPD Union President Patrick Lynch Is Completely Nuts: A History, J.K. Trotter, Gawker
• The right politicizes murders: How it exploited tragedy, told de Blasio how to raise his son, Joan Walsh, Salon
• Blue Lives Matter, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
• A Lot Fewer Cops Are Killed These Days And Most Who Are, Are Killed By White Guys, Wendy Gittleson, Addicting Info
• There’s only one person to blame for the murder of two NYC cops, Jon Terbush, The Week

December 23, 2014

• Fact Checker: Giuliani’s claim that Obama launched anti-police ‘propaganda’, Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post
• Off duty, black cops in New York feel threatened by fellow police officers, Reuters, Raw Story
• Portland police union president blames ‘media, politicians, community activists’ for fueling anti-police hatred, shooting of 2 NYPD officers, Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian

December 24, 2014

• A Comparative Tale of Two Cop Killers – The Millers VS Ismaaiyl Brinsley, Mr. Davey D, Black Agenda Report

December 26, 2014

• Plane Towing Banner Criticizing DeBlasio Is Spotted Above NYC, Mary Ann Georgantopoulos, BuzzFeed News
• Cops Threaten a Blue Coup in New York City, The Free Thought Project
• Is Violence Ever Justified? Against The Police? Down with Tyranny!

December 27, 2014

Thousands of police turn backs on Mayor de Blasio to show that they are above the law and answer to no one, just like it says in their oath.

— Chris Rock (@ozchrisrock) December 27, 2014

• Cops turn backs on de Blasio at executed officer’s funeral, Shawn Cohen and Aaron Short, New York Post
• NYPD Turn Backs to de Blasio at Slain Officer’s Funeral, Hudson Hongo, Gawker

December 28, 2014

• NYPD Chief Bratton defends Mayor de Blasio and criticizes officers’ funeral protest, Ed Pilkington, Raw Story
• Turn Your Backs On Police, Scott Greenfield, Simple Justice
• Giuliani’s hate-mongering shows the right wing will never stop trying to scare whites about Obama, Ian Reifowitz, Daily Kos
• Bill de Blasio, stiff-spined liberal that takes no crap, Egberto Willies, Daily Kos

December 29, 2014

• If Protesters Are Responsible For Officers’ Deaths, So Then Are The Tea Party, Tim from LA, PoliticusUSA
• New York’s epic white backlash: How a horrid 1960s relic is still with us today, Joan Walsh, Salon
• Emails and Racist Chats Show How Cops and GOP Are Teaming Up to Undermine de Blasio, Max Blumenthal, AlterNet

December 31, 2014

• you’re looking in the wrong direction, Greg Fallis, gregfallis.com

January 3, 2015

• Protester Who Chanted For “Dead Cops” Says They Didn’t Mean It, Nicolás Medina Mora, BuzzFeed News

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See also:

• What Cop T-Shirts Tell Us About Police Culture, Radley Balko, Huffington Post, June 21, 2013
• The Bad Kind of Unionism, Shawn Gude, Jacobin, January 2014
• Teens taken down at gunpoint after aiming fake gun at police, CBC News, December 23, 2014 [i.e. no one got shot.]
• Lying Cop Humilitated As Protesters Demand To See Fake Law Requiring Them To Leave, Moreh B.D.K. and Kory Watkins, Counter-Current News, December 23, 2014

Flashback:

• Officers Rally And Dinkins Is Their Target, James C. McKinley, Jr., New York Times, September 17, 1992