By: Mike Rakebrandt
The NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Public Relations (DCPI) Tarik Sheppard, on behalf of the PC’s office, most likely from the mayors office orders NYPD members to not stand with President Trump when he made his remarks at the wake of PO Diller. This shitbag thinks it appropriate to play politics when it’s about grieving and support. Here is what they don’t get and never will. For us it’s about the loss, our family member taken doing something we all have hundred or thousands of times. We can see ourselves in their place, our families grieving the loss. It’s a reality we live everyday we are “On the job”. The show of force at our funerals isn’t about politics or even sending a message. It’s an acknowledgement of the reality that it could have and may at some point be any one of us. The second and most important part of this is the message it sends to the fallen officers family. You are not alone, you will not grieve alone. You have a family of hundreds of thousands that will grieve with you. That family will stand with you now and always. That is the real blue line, it is no different for our brothers and sisters that stand the red line in our fire departments. At every line of duty death for either you will see members of both standing to pay their respects. This is about those of us called to serve and what that really means, the sacrifices we make and are willing to make. This is service, it’s not about elections or a photo op. To tell the members not to stand with a man that came to support them and our fallen brother’s family is by far one of the most disgusting things I have seen from department leadership. This order never came from a cop, it came from a coward trying to play political games. God bless PO Diller, grant him the rest and peace he earned. God bless his family in their time of grief, blue and blood.
SEVEN FIVE RADIO 