Bratton on Denying Trump Request to Address NYPD: We Won’t Be Used as a ‘Backdrop’

‘We don’t allow the department to be used, if you will, as a backdrop for those types of campaigns’

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BRATTON: "Very specifically one of his security personnel, former NYPD personnel reached out to the department about the potential for the Mr. Trump to address a roll call. We don’t allow the department to haviticized and as much as he’s engaged in the political campaign that would be a politicizing of the department. I had a conversation with Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton later in the day that day at their request, both of them called me to discuss New York specifically as well as the Dallas situation. Very productive conversations. It’s been over played in some respects in the media. We don’t allow the department to be used, if you will, as a backdrop for those types of campaigns." 

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