Three NYPD union leaders — including two of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s harshest critics — presented a united front Tuesday as they entered the Police Academy in Queens together for an unprecedented meeting with Hizzoner.
The head of the sergeants union, Ed Mullins, waited outside for PBA chief Pat Lynch and Lou Turco of the lieutenants union before heading in.
Lynch — whose son, Kevin, graduated from the academy on Monday — smiled and shook hands with a cop guarding the entrance.
Lynch and Mullins have both repeatedly blasted de Blasio for not supporting the NYPD, and accused him of having “blood on his hands” over the Dec. 20 execution-style slayings of two cops in Brooklyn.
De Blasio requested the confab with the heads of all five police unions following several stunning displays of disrespect against him by the rank and file since the killings of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu.
The chronically late mayor showed up seven minutes early for the 2 p.m. meeting, but was still the last on the scene.
NYPD Chief of Department James O’Neill and First Deputy Commissioner Ben Tucker arrived first, moments ahead of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.
Michael Palladino of the detectives union and Roy Richter of the captains union were next, followed by Mullins, Lynch and Turco.
As de Blasio left City Hall for the meeting, anti-cop activists there vowed to disrupt Wednesday’s New Year’s Eve festivities in Times Square with a protest they predicted would attract 100,000 demonstrators.
Protesters have largely ignored de Blasio’s plea last week for them to take a break until after Ramos and Liu were buried.
“We will not abide by calls to ease up or stop the protests,” said Carl Dix, national spokesman for the Revolutionary Communist Party.
“Someone who presides over a setup where those who are entrusted with public security have killed and brutalized unarmed, innocent people — and then the justice system has done nothing to those law enforcement officers — has no right to tell us when, where and how we can protest against them.”
