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Funeral of officers in the event they were killed on duty. >> when an individual who is the executive of the city does not have the cooperation of his own police force, it puts the citizens in a very dangerous place. when you hear some of the rhetoric by the union president, that only raises the level of frustration. >> reporter: tension between police and de blasio started before he took office in january over new yorks stop and frisk policy. at its height in 2011 nearly 700,000 new yorkers sto...

Believes her. he was working for a local tv station when christopher milky was killed and interviewed debra a couple hours after detective saldate did. >> did you tell the police you had anything to do with the death of your son. she glared at me, her eyes got big and she said "thats crazy, who told you that, i had nothing to do with the death of my son." >> this is probably my favorite. >> reporter: but her ex-husband, christophers father, disagrees. he always has. do you believe your ex-wife k...

You say many current and former fers feel that the mayor has symbolically turned his back on them. how so? >> i think in speaking to a number of my colleagues, wolf, what officers are feeling is when these attacks were being directed at them, when you had protesters attacking officers physically and verbally in some instances on some of these demonstrations, chanting and calling for dead cops, what the officers were looking for in that instance was for the mayor to take a stand or some individua...

These things and we have to deal with it. >> two men, ben geen lieu and rafael ramos, great police officers, young, but such a tlaj dee. sunny honed in on a group of protesters who have chanted calling for dead cops. you point out that was a tiny fraction of the protesters and it was within the tens of thousands who have taken to the street streets. but does he have a point that a more forceful rebuke of those people including those that wrote nypd kkk on the sidewalk in front of headquarters, t...

Mayor and the police will work this out anytime soon? >> sounds like we have a bit of a reprieve. officer ramos will be laid to rest on saturday. were still working out the details of officer lius funeral, waiting for family to come in from china. but it sounds like all the unions, not just the pba but all the unions are going to dial back on the rhetoric. the mayor has spoken twice now, said hes spoken to the family today. so it sounds like things are moving in the right direction, but i think ...

Couldnt be a chaplain, he thought only clergy members could be chaplains. however we allow lay leaders to be chaplains so he was excited that he could continue to help his community and he saw himself as doing this sort of chaplaincy ministry in the future after he retired from the nypd to continue to serve his community. >> sounds like a very special man. reverend miranda, vince war venn, thank you both. appreciate your time. remember when president obama promised to respond to north koreas h...

Uns unsubstantiat unsubstantiated. >> without even going in? >> im suggesting its possible. >> reporter: howard safir says he remembers back in the 1970s and 80s in new york when during a time of more violence toward the police, the police were called blue flower pots because they sat in their cars not doing much. now, neither safir nor jim pasko of the fraternal order of police believe were headed back to a period like that but safir worries about how police will behave if they continue to feel...

Sunny, mark novak also honed in on a group of protesters who had chanted calling for dead cops. you point out that was a tiny fraction of the protesters and it was within the tens of thousands who have taken to the streets. but does he have a point that a more forceful rebuke of those people including the others who wrote "nypd kkk" on the sidewalk in front of nypd headquarters, that those people should have been condemned and stopped right away? >> my understanding, wolf, is that they were cond...

Circuit wrote a blistering takedown of not only the prosecutor but the police, the state judge, a federal judge, he named names. randi, listen to this. "no civilized system of justice should have to depend on such flimsy evidence, quite possibly tainted by dishonesty or overzealousness." he actually goes on to say that the police department, the supervisor should be ashamed of themselves. you know what we call that in a legal profession? a bench slap right there from the ninth circuit. >> we cal...

Officers were taken, fellow police turn their backs on him. a powerful and divisive message to the mayor of this major city who has lost their trust. this man was a new york city cop for 20 years. >> ive never seen hostilities this heightened before my career. >> reporter: the benevolent association has been withering in its attacks on de blasio. >> theres blood on many hands tonight. that blood on the hands starts on the steps of city hall in the office of the mayor. >> reporter: he and his org...