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The commissioner said in a memo to officers a heros funeral is about grieving, not grievance. nbcs adam reese is outside the funeral home in brooklyn. adam youve been out on the streets covering this story since it happened. do you get a sense that the officers will adhere to the commissioners memo and not turn their backs on the mayor? >> reporter: ayman, good afternoon. relations between the mayor and the rank-and-file continue to be strained for quite a while now. so efforts to bring them tog...

Addressing his family. truly spectacular. the other aspect that is really interesting, increasingly so you are a resident of the city of new york. is the relationship between the police commissioner and the mayor bill de blasio that truly needs the commissioner the police commissioner indicated he felt it was almost totally inappropriate for the few hundred police officers that turned their back on the mayor during his eulogy. >> the vice president because of what he went through in his own life...

You confront all the problems that plague our society. problems that you didnt create. you confront poverty, you confront mental illness. illegal guns. >> the crowd reacting to new york city mayor bill deblas speaking at the graduation ceremony at madison square garden. also in the crowd reporting that someone in yelled you did talking about police confronting problems you did not create. this comes after dozens turned their back on them showing him during his remarks and his eulogy for one of t...

From the reality that the new york city police department is the most diverse police department i would bet in this country and i would absolutely state without equivocation its the finest police force in the world. not just the city and not just this country the world. >> statistics, you have literally 100 languages or so spoken by new york city police officers second to none intelligence capability in terms of monitoring terrorist threats and look at the statistics on crime. >> this has turned...

One of these poor black neighborhoods is living in a neighborhood that is poorly policed. the idea that when you dial 911 they may take their time coming or not come at all and we are already seeing stories about that in todays "new york post" there was a storyñkb0do about police making fewer arrests issuing fewer summons. >> they are afraid to go into some of these communities. >> exactly. because we dont have elected officials backing them. that is the problem. the law abiding residents of th...

Morning on "meet the press" saying he believes while the rift between the police and mayor will go on longer, he believes it was inappropriate for officers to turn their backs and said when asked about african-american concerns about police. >> their perception is the reality we have to deal with. there is no denies that among the black community there are those concerns. policing that sometimes its difficult to see those. i made comments yesterday in my eulogy about seeing each other to underst...

The mayor gave a very solemn and simple message today that we are all one new york, that he put himself in the position of nypd officers. he went to great lengths to explain in his eulogy that what was done against these two officers was done against the city of new york. martin? >> miguel marquez, thank you very much. so just who was rafael ramos? cnns randi kaye takes a look at the life of this fallen hero. >> reporter: officer ramos worked as a school security officer before joining the nyp...

Officers do have. >> lets talk a little bit about the frustration between the mayor. mayor de blasio, and the police force there, the nypd. and we have seen before a little show of defiance when they turned their backs to the mayor when he was in the hospital. do you think that were going to see any kind of display like that this morning? or do you think theres going to be something thats going to be different? >> i think whats different is that the ramos family has asked for the mayor to attend...

Now, as he is standing outside. hes talking to former mayor, rudy giuliani, there. a collection of leaders past and present, that have come to pay their respects. you saw that mayor bill de blasio also delivered the eulogy inside of that church. and then there was the reaction from some law enforcement outside as they turned their backs on the mayor. that, in part, a sign of disrespect, to show the displeasure that the department have, some have, over what they believe is the lack of the mayor h...

[speaking foreign language] we will always remember him. may he rest in peace. god bless you all. >> thats new york mayor bill de blasio there speaking about delivering the eulogy of the rafael ramos.