"In his memo, Mr. Bratton acknowledged that tension but told officers “that when you don the uniform of this department, you are bound by the tradition, honor and decency that go with it.”
Tens of thousands of police officers showed up at Officer Ramos’s funeral to pay their respects. When the mayor rose to deliver the eulogy, hundreds of officers standing outside the church turned their backs.
Mr. Bratton described the gesture in his memo as an “an act of disrespect” that distracted from the memory of the two officers. Though not all of the officers on hand participated, he said, “all of the officers were painted by it.”
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