PBA Statement on the Resignation of P.O. Francisco Garcia

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said:

“It was clear from the outset that City Hall and 1 Police Plaza were going to leave P.O. Garcia holding the bag for their own failures. We warned them that sending cops out to enforce their half-baked public health policies would create a backlash — they didn’t listen, and now a yet another police officer’s career has been cut short by politics. Is it any wonder that thousands of cops are heading out the door before the same thing happens to them?”