Watch Your Front. From [HERE] New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio honored Rafael Ramos at the slain New York police officer's funeral Saturday.  "He couldn't wait to put on that uniform. He believed in protecting others," he said.Then, speaking in Spanish, de Blasio told the Ramos family and New York that he "was one of your best sons. ... He was a man of much faith and a brave police officer."

Hundreds of mostly white officers outside the church turned their backs in a sign of disrespect as de Blasio spoke. This stance from the racist suspect mourners is a flip flop from the position taken on Friday, when current and former NYPD officers paid for a banner to fly along the Hudson River which said: "De Blasio, our backs have turned to you." But it is consistent with their original position taken last Saturday when they turned their backs on Mayor de Blasio as he entered a Brooklyn hospital to pay his respects to the two murdered officers. 

Some police have said de Blasio contributed to a climate of mistrust toward police amid anti-police protests. The protests followed the deliberate death of Eric Garner, an unarmed Black man who was strangled and pounced on and smothered by numerous white cops in broad daylight. The entire incident was captured on video with audio and occurred in front of a crowd of witnesses. An all white grand jury did not believe there was probable cause to charge a white officer with any crime in Garner's death. No other white cops involved were charged. [MORE]