The mayor denounced the handling of these incidents but initiallydefended the enforcement of social distancing and bristledat critics who compared it to the police practices of Mayor MichaelBloomberg. The dispute got mixed up in the mayor's ongoing feud with GovernorAndrew Cuomo, who this month rebuked de Blasio for voicingsupport for the police and mused aloud about his constitutionalprerogative to remove the mayor from office. DE BLASIO ISN'T the first New York City mayor to tangle withthe police and their unions. ALTHOUGH THOSE PROTESTERSon the bridge--the ones whosepaychecks the mayor signs andwho, even if they left their jobs,might seek him out as a reference--wereostensibly there to protest the NYPD, theywere also very much there to protest theway the mayor runs his office. [Extracted from the article]
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