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   From: deplorable.redneck@nytimes.com   
      
   DETROIT -- NYPD cops turned out Wednesday to protest New York   
   City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s appearance at the 2020 Democratic   
   primary debate, calling on him to get back to the Big Apple,   
   negotiate with the men and women in blue, and "finish the job   
   that he ran for."   
      
   “Can’t run the city, can’t run the country,” roughly 20 New York   
   officers chanted outside the Fox Theatre in Detroit, where   
   Hizzoner will face off against nine rivals at the second night   
   of primary debates Wednesday. They also carried signs accusing   
   him of failing to help homeless New Yorkers, cutting city   
   workers’ health care and putting “working people last.”   
      
   “Mayor de Blasio,” they chanted. “No friend of labor!”   
      
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    · Jul 31, 2019   
    .@NYCPBA officers here in Detroit are protesting Bill de Blasio   
   — accusing him of not paying his police officers and putting   
   “working people last.”   
      
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   “You can’t run the city, you can’t run the country!”   
      
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   The de Blasio campaign declined to comment.   
      
   The cops, who traveled from New York, told Fox News that they   
   had been out of contract for almost two years with no raise to   
   speak of, and that de Blasio wanted to give them raises that   
   were well below inflation. The protest was organized by the New   
   York City Police Benevolent Association (PBA) which represents   
   24,000 rank-and-file officers.   
      
   “We’re here to tell our mayor that he should come back and   
   finish the job that he ran for,” Officer Joseph Alejandro told   
   Fox News. “He ran to be the mayor of New York City and now he’s   
   doing this run, we don’t know why but he’s got a lot of   
   unfinished work in this city and one of those things is he   
   should be negotiating with us.”   
      
   “He keeps running away from us ... so we’re going to chase him   
   as much as we have to, we’re going to make sure he knows that he   
   should be back at the table and do his job,” he said.   
      
   The mayor has had a consistently poor relationship with his   
   officers. In 2017, officers turned their backs on him when he   
   spoke at the funeral of a murdered officer. Cops have accused   
   him for years of not backing them. Incidents of officers being   
   doused with water in New York neighborhoods have fueled   
   tensions, though de Blasio has condemned those attacks.   
      
   But officers told Fox News that the main issue they were   
   focusing on in Detroit was pay, claiming they are roughly 30   
   percent behind the average of other local police departments.   
      
   “There are many things, but that’s the primary, it means nothing   
   unless you can put food on the table for your family,” Alejandro   
   said.   
      
   De Blasio has struggled to soothe relations with officers. At a   
   primary debate last month, de Blasio again referenced how he had   
   talked with his son Dante about “how to protect himself in the   
   streets of our city … including the fact that he has to take   
   special caution because there have been too many tragedies   
   between young men and our police.”   
      
   When a day later he tweeted his condolences about an officer who   
   took his own life, the Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA)   
   called him “full of s---.”   
      
   NYPD officers protest outside the Fox Theatre in Detroity (Adam   
   Shaw/Fox News)   
      
   “You bashed every cop in the country last night in the DNC   
   debate. You use cops for your own gain,” the SBA’s account   
   tweeted. “Truth is you could care less about cops, so save the   
   sympathy card for the clowns who believe your cr--."   
      
   He is not the only presidential hopeful to be dogged by his own   
   cops. Police in South Bend, Ind., have been angered by the way   
   Mayor Pete Buttigieg handled an officer-involved shooting in the   
   city, and subsequent remarks in which he said policing was done   
   under the “shadow of racism.”   
      
   But de Blasio will need a breakout moment quickly to remain in   
   the presidential race, or at least on the debate stage, past the   
      
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