New Yorkers overwhelmingly disapprove of police protests against mayor

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last updated 15 January 2015

Sixty-nine percent of New York City voters disapprove of police officers who turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio at funerals for the two cops killed in an ambush last month, according to a Quinnipiac poll released Thursday. On the flip side, 27 percent said they approved of the symbolic protest.

Moreover, by a 77 percent to 17 percent margin voters said the comments by police union head Patrick Lynch that de Blasio had "blood on his hands" were "too extreme."

De Blasio came under fire from Lynch and others for saying, in the wake of the Eric Garner chokehold case, that police don't always treat all races equally. In the survey, 63 percent of respondents said the city's police were tougher on blacks than other races.

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Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.