Crowd, pols lash Bill for protest response

Call him Mayor de Boos-io.

Thousands of demonstrators heckled Hizzoner at a memorial ceremony for George Floyd in Brooklyn on Thursday as a City Council member pushed for a no-confidence vote on the flailing mayor and City Hall staffers put out another letter lambasting him.

Things got off to a bad start for de Blasio when he took the stage in Cadman Plaza, where demonstrators were gathered to mourn the May 25 death of Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.

When the master of ceremonies, the Rev. Kevin McCall, introduced the mayor, the crowd erupted in boos.

“We said, respect!” McCall pleaded, to no avail, as demonstrators chanted, “No justice, no peace!”

New York City’s First Lady Chirlane McCray went on before the mayor, starting her remarks with an upbeat cry of “power to the people!” Before yielding the mic to de Blasio, she implored the crowd to “give him the same respect that you [gave] me.”

Demonstrators weren’t buying it.

Jeering, boos and chants of “black lives matter” nearly drowned out de Blasio’s roughly 90-second monologue.

“George Floyd cannot have been allowed to die in vain,” he began, then shifted to the topic at the center of widespread fury at the mayor — police accountability.

“It will not be about words in this city. It will be about change … in the NYPD. Change that you can see and believe,” he said in a slightly hoarse voice.

Earlier Thursday, the mayor put his head in the sand when asked for comment on aggressive policing during the previous night’s protests, such as penning in curfew-defying demonstrators at Cadman Plaza, then hitting some of them with batons.

“I have not seen the videos that you referred to or seen those accounts, but if there is anything that needs to be reviewed, it will be,” he claimed.

Hizzoner’s ham-fisted response to protests that broke out last Thursday has enraged pols across the political spectrum.

City Councilman Eric Ulrich, a Republican, said he will push a no-confidence vote within the coming weeks.

De Blasio spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein responded that her boss is focused on serving New Yorkers, not on “the politically expedient background noise.”

Meanwhile, City Council staffers circulated a letter urging the body to serve as a stronger counterbalance against the mayor.

“It is this time that requires a real departure from the mayor’s callous policies against black people and people of color,” the missive stated. “It is not enough to participate in … symbolic gestures.”

On Wednesday, more than 200 current and former de Blasio staffers published a jaw-dropping letter accusing the mayor of abandoning his promises to enact criminal justice reform.

“Part of this backlash that we’re seeing from his base is a lot of folks felt they stood up for him over a long period of time,” said Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University. “Why are you abandoning your base?”

Recent days have marked perhaps the highest level of outrage against the mayor since the start of his administration in 2014.