Lynch ‘ tears’ into de Blasio

COPS NEED City Hall’s support on the streets — and not the mayor’s “crocodile tears” over their caskets, the irate head of the largest NYPD union said Saturday.

An unapologetic Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, doubled down on the union’s police funeral snub of Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito.

The PBA, on its website, posted a form letter Friday for officers to fill out asking the two politicians to steer clear of their potential line-of-duty funerals.

“We’re the voice of the members,” Lynch said at an annual Christmas party for the widows and children of officers killed on the job.

“And the members said, ‘If they can’t support us now when we’re alive, they surely shouldn’t come to a funeral and have crocodile tears and sit next to my family.’ ”

The downloadable letter said that any appearance by the two

If they can’t support us now when we’re alive, they surely shouldn’t come to a funeral and have crocodile tears

PATRICK LYNCH

politicians “at the funeral of a fallen New York City police officer is an insult to that officer’s memory and sacrifice.”

De Blasio and Mark-Viverto released a statement of their own Friday, blasting the letter as “an inappropriate stunt” laden with “incendiary rhetoric.”

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who stopped by the event, refused to answer questions about the widening rift between his officers and the first-term mayor.

Lynch — who acknowledged that he hasn’t spoke with Bratton about the letter — insisted the idea came from rank-and-file cops working the streets of New York every day.

He singled out de Blasio for “laying every problem from across the country ... on the shoulders of New York City police officers” in the wake of the Eric Garner grand jury.

The Staten Island panel declined to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo on any charges stemming from Garner’s death.

The mayor further incensed the NYPD by saying that he warned his biracial son, 17-yearold Dante, to be particularly careful if approached by city cops.