Walkout over Bronx slay cop O’Neill calls meet ‘productive’

IT TOOK JUST six minutes for the head of the sergeants union to walk out on a meeting with the police commissioner Tuesday, sources told the Daily News.

Commissioner James O’Neill, during the breakfast meeting at 1 Police Plaza, defended his decision to put Sgt. Hugh Barry on desk duty after the fatal shooting of Deborah Danner in the Bronx on Oct. 18. O’Neill said immediately after the shooting that protocols were not followed during the confrontation with Danner, a 66-year-old emotionally disturbed woman.

O’Neill began speaking about 8 a.m., telling union heads and top brass that he, as commissioner, has “to look at the totality of the circumstances in every incident,” according to a source at the meeting.

Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, left at 8:06 a.m. About 65 people attended the meeting. O’Neill also had a breakfast meeting at Police Headquarters on Friday, but that was a much smaller group of only union leaders.

Mullins last month called O’Neill a “neutered” commissioner and said he was too weak to stand up to Mayor de Blasio.

“You have to represent your members and advocate for your members,” O’Neill said during the Tuesday meeting, according to a source. “I get that. I understand that. If you want to say things about me — fine.”

O’Neill then appeared to make another reference to Mullins, who recently called Chief of Patrol Terence Monahan a coward for putting Barry on desk duty.

“If you want to say things about Terry Monahan — that’s fine, too,” O’Neill said, according to the