Civil war.
Via NY Post:
…The “round-table” event was staged so that de Blasio could make a public show of his concern about the death of Staten Islander Eric Garner, with Bratton announcing every cop in the 35,000-strong NYPD would undergo retraining.
“Change has been happening, the change will continue to deepen,” de Blasio said. Message: I care.
It was also designed so Bratton could claim the department he recently inherited had been “deficient” in its training efforts, but he was now on the job to change all that.
Well, if de Blasio thought giving Sharpton equal billing with the top cop would pacify his guest, he was sorely mistaken. In Sharpton’s view, the department needs to be changed from top to bottom, to be revolutionized.
According to Sharpton, it is not only stop-and-frisk, but the entire policing approach that had saved New York City from itself, that has to be discarded. […]
Sharpton said he would not be satisfied with “window-dressing.” Here was his stark warning to the mayor: “If we’re going to just play spin games, I’ll be your worst enemy.”
In fact, New Yorkers benefited unambiguously when City Hall treated Sharpton as though it were his worst enemy. They may smile together now on occasion, but Bratton certainly wasn’t smiling back in 1995 at City Hall, when he stood beside his then-boss, Rudy Giuliani, as Giuliani effectively accused Sharpton of responsibility for a 1994 shooting spree and fire that left seven dead (eight, if you count the murderer).