Tradition Loc: Staten Island, N.Y.

FYI - New York City Mayoral Candidate Bill de Blasio spent time as a left-wing supporter and activist for Nicaragua's ruling Sandinista party at a time when the Reagan administration characterized it as "tyrannical" and "Communist."

He also honeymooned in Cuba in violation of the United States' ban on travel to the Caribbean Communist stronghold.

However, this Thursday Mayor Bill de Blasio skipped an NYPD swearing-in ceremony made somber by this week’s assassination of a female police officer — then hours later revealed he was busy preparing to jet off on a surprise trip to join leftist protesters at the G-20 summit in Germany. (Amazing isn't it? - Obama jets off to Las Vegas after the Bengazi Debacle!! De Blasio jets off to Germany after another police assassination in N.Y.!! Anyone see a pattern here?)

De Blasio's overseas jaunt was kept under wraps until just 90 minutes before he took off from Newark Airport. A last-minute announcement said he “will attend several events surrounding the G-20 Summit, including Saturday’s Hamburg Zeigt Haltung rally.”

The head of the New York Police Department Sergeants Union was not at all happy.

“As the city mourns, its leader flees,” Ed Mullins said. “And then he wonders why he has a problem with the police. A real leader stays with the city in this time of hardship.”

So De Blasio is now joining leftist anarchists who are setting cars on fire and marauding through the streets of Hamburg, clashing violently with police clad in riot gear who are using water cannons, pepper spray and batons to disperse protesters. The protest is titled "G20: Welcome to Hell," and includes throngs of anti-capitalist protesters intent on disrupting the annual meeting of 20 major world economies.

In Germany, 196 police officers were injured throughout the evening, with three requiring treatment in hospital, police said. The pilots of a police helicopter sustained eye injuries when laser pointers were directed at them, police said.

Protesters damaged cars, set other objects ablaze and threw bottles in roving clashes that lasted until midnight.

"We are not going to be intimidated by President Trump and we are not going to turn away from our values," De Blasio said. "I have said many times this is not someone you get something done by compromising with or yielding to. He only understands strength and we have to show strength." De Blasio continued to attack Trump, with the mayor saying, as the "leader of the biggest city in the country," he has the responsibility to represent the U.S. differently from the president. (NARCISSISM RUN AMOK!!)

This poor excuse for a Mayor is not a separate citizen anymore. He represents the people of N.Y. but his arrogance is so blatant that, though he ADMITTED he was an advocate of "DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM,"" he flies to Germany to arrogantly assert N.Y. "values." Well I'm a New Yorker - have been all my life - and what this Socialist claims are N.Y. "values" certainly are not mine.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

The disrespect he has shown his officers is unbelievable. Even liberals are shaking their heads. New York is turning back into a cesspool like it was before Rudi. Unfortunately only about one third of eligible voters vote in New York mayoral elections. This guy should be removed from office.

Tradition Loc: Staten Island, N.Y.

Couldn't agree more.

Harry Houck, a 25-year-veteran of law enforcement questioned the mayor's allegiance to the N.Y. Police Dept.:

"Is he worried about the cops that are protecting him and his family?" "I mean, does he sit there and look at the police officers that guard him every day, that are willing to put their life on the line FOR HIM, looking at them that he can't trust them or he can't trust them with his kids? "Mr. De Blasio made the wrong statement the other day out there. He should be protecting his police officers. He should obey the rule of law."

The mayor, who is white, and married to Chirlane McCray — who is African-American — said he worried about the safety of his mixed-race son Dante in interactions with police, just like parents of other black children.

"[He's] a good, young man, law-abiding young man, who would never think to do anything wrong," de Blasio said. "And yet, because of a history that still hangs over us, the dangers he may face, we've had to literally train him — as families have all over this city for decades — in how to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him." What a disgusting comment for a Mayor to make: "Take SPECIAL CARE IN ANY ENCOUNTER WITH POLICE OFFICERS WHO ARE THERE TO PROTECT HIM."

Houck — now head of Houck Consulting, which specializes in private investigations and counterterrorism training — said police officers put their lives on the line every day.

"When you're a police officer in the morning getting up to go to work, you know there's a possibility you might not come home that night," he said.

"Somebody will pull out a gun. Somebody will pull out a knife so an officer sees that and says to himself, you know what, I'm going to be super careful."

And that is just what happened. Officer Miosotis Familia was inside the large vehicle — known as a mobile command post — with her partner, at 12:30 a.m., when a gunman fired through a window and struck Familia in the head, police said. The city’s police commissioner called the shooting an assassination.

Familia, a 12-year NYPD veteran, was taken to a hospital in extremely critical condition, police said. Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill announced several hours later that Familia had died. Familia’s partner was not wounded in the attack.

In a statement Wednesday afternoon, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Familia was “unjustly targeted and murdered in a COWARDLY, UNPROVOKED ATTACK."

“She will be remembered for her years of service and for the example of selflessness that she set protecting people on our streets,” Sessions said. “This murder in cold blood is a tragedy, and sadly it is the latest in a troubling series of attacks on police officers over the past two years.”

Police said Familia was wrapping up her shift when the gunman fired. “My partner’s shot! My partner’s shot! My partner’s shot! Hurry up central!” her partner was heard screaming into a police radio, according to the Associated Press.

Two other officers confronted the suspected gunman about a block away from the scene of the shooting, police said. The shooting suspect was shot and killed after he drew a revolver, police said. He was identified by authorities as 34-year-old Alexander Bonds.

48 year old Officer Familia had three children, including a set of twins. The twins are 12 years old, and her oldest is 20. She was of Dominican descent and the youngest of four girls and two boys.