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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 york's stop and frisk policy. at its height in 2011 nearly 700,000 new yorkers stopped for so-called suspicious behavior. 87% of them black or latino. de blasio made ending the poli...

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 "that's 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, christopher's father, disagrees. he always has. do you believe your ex-wife killed your son? >> i know she did. i don't believe it. i mow she did. >> reporter: so that's where...

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 individuals associated with this protest to stand up and say, yes, you have a right to protest, yes, you may ...

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, that those people should have been condemned and stopped right away? >> my understanding, wolf, is th...

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. we're still working out the details of officer liu's 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 he's spoken to the family today. so it sounds like things are moving in the right direction, but i think there's going to be a lot more discussion in the days ahead. wolf? >> miguel, thanks very much. a...