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Quoting B747400ERF (Reply 5): My post gets deleted for asking a basic question about supporting the victims of the police? Hero and authority worship is becoming too much. |
Quoting rlwynn (Reply 11): Why is it so important that officers that are so far away that they must fly there attend the funeral? They have nothing to do with the situation. |
Quoting NeutronStar73 (Reply 13): Don't think this should be applauded at all. It is a pretty pathetic attempt to pander to what is now a pretty hot political issue. |
Quoting rlwynn (Reply 11): Why is it so important that officers that are so far away that they must fly there attend the funeral? They have nothing to do with the situation. |
Quoting NeutronStar73 (Reply 13): |
Quoting bigfoot0503 (Reply 18): As a retired Police Officer in Portland, OR I have attended police funerals for fallen brothers and sisters all across the United States. The law enforcement community in the US all perform the same basic functions regardless of the community in which one serves. As another post suggested this practice of attending the funeral of a fallen officer is simply what law enforcement does and goes to display the remarkable support that officers have for one another in spite of geographical distances. |
Quoting 727LOVER (Reply 20): I imagine firefighters are the same, no? |
Quoting klm672 (Reply 14): Are these confirmed tickets or stand-by "if there is a seat, you can get on". |
Quoting NeutronStar73 (Reply 13): Will JetBlue fly military members to far off places for free to attend those funerals? No. Will JetBlue fly firefighters from far flung departments around the country to attend a funeral for firefighters killed while fighting a fire in No-Name City, New York State (not New York City)? No |
Quoting 727LOVER (Reply 20): I imagine firefighters are the same, no? |
Quoting jfklganyc (Reply 21): 1. I really don't think it's political I think it's good pr and a nice gesture |
Quoting jfklganyc (Reply 31): They aren't doing it for pr |
Quoting jfklganyc (Reply 21): It's politically popular to back the police and law and order. |
Quoting B747400ERF (Reply 27): Nothing about these funerals on the part of the nypd has been classy, unfortunately. Since they politicised the funeral JetBlue should have stepped back and not become involved. |
Quoting jfklganyc (Reply 31): So for the haters out there put up or shut up. You get these cops there from all over the country and China for free. When you do that...then you can rip apart jetblue and their motivations for doing it |
Quoting OA412 (Reply 32): Is it? People are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with police tactics across the country. |
Quoting OA412 (Reply 32): The thing is, they don't have to attend this funeral. They are doing it out of respect, and I understand that, but it's not as though they have to attend. I'm sorry, but plenty of people miss parent or sibling funerals because they can't afford to travel. I've never seen anyone in that situation offered a free flight. Is their grief really less important than officers wanting to attend a funeral for an officer they didn't even know? |
Quoting B747400ERF (Reply 27): Nothing about these funerals on the part of the nypd has been classy, unfortunately. Since they politicised the funeral JetBlue should have stepped back and not become involved. |
Quoting jfklganyc (Reply 33): Sure is! Take a poll tomorrow my friend. The overwhelming majority of Americans stand behind their police. That's why the guy had 23,000 people (yes that's right 23,000 people) at his funeral. |
Quoting wjcandee (Reply 38): The reason our mayor is in the doghouse with regular citizens is not because he "supported the protesters", but rather because he didn't step up and loudly and actively state his disagreement with the widely-publicized fringes of the protest who were calling for cop-killing and were assaulting cops. He now says that that was his position all along (and maybe it was), but he did absolutely nothing to make that position clear and did nothing to try to tamp down the rhetoric. He had the ability to tamp it down publicly and privately, and he didn't. |
Quoting NeutronStar73 (Reply 41): the Mayor is in the dog house because he didn't get 100% in lockstep behind the police in wake of the Eric Garner death |
Quoting USFlyer MSP (Reply 43): I honestly don't think you are in touch with the "general public".... |