Pernicious
11-02-2014, 12:05 PM
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Hell hath no fury like a first lady whose passed-over pick for police commissioner — the outgoing Chief of Department Philip Banks III — is further scorned.
“I told you we can’t trust him!” a furious Chirlane McCray railed at her husband, Mayor de Blasio, after learning that Police Commissioner Bill Bratton had stood up to Banks during a power struggle Friday that ended with the chief’s resignation, sources told The Post.
By “him” McCray meant Bratton, whom she never wanted to see at the commissioner’s desk.
“She is friendly with Banks, and he was her choice” for commissioner, a source said.
“She was very upset when he resigned,” the source said of *McCray, who has sat in on NYPD CompStat meetings, and whom de Blasio has called his most trusted adviser.
By Friday afternoon, de Blasio had summoned Bratton to City Hall, blasting him face to face for not catering to Banks, who had resigned rather than take a promotion to No. 2 at the NYPD — a position Banks felt was powerless.
http://nypost.com/2014/11/02/citys-first-lady-not-happy-with-bill-bratton/
Hell hath no fury like a first lady whose passed-over pick for police commissioner — the outgoing Chief of Department Philip Banks III — is further scorned.
“I told you we can’t trust him!” a furious Chirlane McCray railed at her husband, Mayor de Blasio, after learning that Police Commissioner Bill Bratton had stood up to Banks during a power struggle Friday that ended with the chief’s resignation, sources told The Post.
By “him” McCray meant Bratton, whom she never wanted to see at the commissioner’s desk.
“She is friendly with Banks, and he was her choice” for commissioner, a source said.
“She was very upset when he resigned,” the source said of *McCray, who has sat in on NYPD CompStat meetings, and whom de Blasio has called his most trusted adviser.
By Friday afternoon, de Blasio had summoned Bratton to City Hall, blasting him face to face for not catering to Banks, who had resigned rather than take a promotion to No. 2 at the NYPD — a position Banks felt was powerless.
http://nypost.com/2014/11/02/citys-first-lady-not-happy-with-bill-bratton/