Bill de Blasio Booed at NYPD Graduation Ceremony

The incident followed hundreds of NYPD officers turning their backs to the New York City mayor on Saturday

Bill De Blasio Booed At NYPD Graduation Ceremony (The Huffington Post)

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) was booed while speaking at a graduation ceremony for the New York Police Department on Tuesday.

"You will confront problems that you didn’t create. You will confront poverty, you will confront mental illness, illegal guns and the challenges of a still-divided society," de Blasio said at the ceremony, which took place at Madison Square Garden.

Tensions between the mayor and the NYPD have been high since demonstrators took to the streets of New York to protest the police killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York.

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