YES! The action was insubordination and should be addressed.
68%
NO! Officers have a right to express their political opinions.
32%
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Why shouldn't these officers be afforded at least the same rights as the protesters to express their thoughts.
The whole thing is a bad situation, but I gotta say if the Protesters want to blow off some steam in the form of a peaceful protest - let 'em. In the process protesting hopefully everybody will feel better and it will diffuse the situation.
And if the cops don't approve, well, I can see why it makes them uncomfortable, and they should be allowed to express their dissatisfaction in a peaceful way too.
The bad to blame is the class warfare coming out of Washington$$$.
When you're wearing a UNIFORM you forfeit individual rights to organizational security or the authority breaks down. and you get fired, IMPRISONED OR EXECUTED!
Would you compare the treatment of police and soldiers. 2 men get killed and the world stops, thousands get killed and the system fails them;
I find it amusing how the RW hates Unions so, yet backs up NYPD Unions over this.
Reagan had no problem firing air controllers .... why should this be different?
1980's Reaganomics -deregulation- massive debt- Reagan & Greenspan 'borrowing' from the SS trust fund to hide debt- huge un funded corp cuts- loopholes -subsides put US on long slow road to global meltdown- busting unions caused lower wages- US laws & policies greatly empowered powerful corps and billionaires - harming the once prosperous middle class - waging long wasteful wars - Making war profiteers billions ...
Absolutely not. It's a freedom of speech issue. If De Blaiso was of a different party, this question wouldn't even be asked. It would be automatically assumed that the officers had a right to express their opinions.
However, in say that, I'm not sure that a funeral was the approperate place. To meit was interjecting politics where politics should not be interjected. However, at public venues, absolutely.