Jared Evan
“I leave my post today with deep disappointment that during the most critical public health crisis in our lifetime, that the Health Department’s incomparable disease control expertise was not used to the degree it could have been,” NYC Health commissioner Dr Oxiris Barbor said in her resignation email sent to Mr. de Blasio, a copy of which was published in The New York Times.
New York City’s embattled Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot resigned her post Tuesday amid a novel coronavirus pandemic.
According to several Media outlets Barbot resigned on Tuesday in protest over her “deep disappointment” with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak and effort to keep it under control, VIN reported.
Dr. Oxiris Barbot is no stranger to controversy, in March she refused the NYPD’s demands for 500,000 surgical masks by telling top brass, “I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops.”
The New York Post’s report of the heated exchange has triggered outrage from police unions, one of which took to Twitter to curse out Barbot and call on Mayor Bill de Blasio to fire her.
“Truth is this b—- has blood on her hands,” tweeted the Sergeant’s Benevolent Association, led by President Ed Mullins. “But why should anyone be surprised the NYPD has suffered under DeBlasio since he became Mayor.”
“I need to understand what happened here, I am concerned about it,” de Blasio said. “If what they said happened is accurate, the commissioner needs to apologize to the men and women of the NYPD”, de Blasio said at the time.
Police Union’s were outraged at the time. NBC reported: Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch calling it “despicable and unforgivable” such comments were made. “Dr. Barbot should be forced to look in the eye of every police family who lost a hero to this virus. Look them in the eye and tell them they aren’t worth a rat’s a—”
The Detective’s Endowment Association also issued strong words in response, saying the health commissioner was “endangering our men and women in blue” by blocking them from getting more supplies NBC reported.
“A so-called city leader, Dr. Barbot showed her true colors as a cop-hater. Five brave NYPD Detectives died as the DEA searched for protective equipment to purchase for our members while we waited for the city to distribute masks,” a union statement read.
One would imagine this put her in hot water, especially since this intense friction between the police and the Health department happened at the start of the pandemic. The NYPD did not realize at the time that by May, law enforcement across the nation would become targets of radical BLM, ANTIFA violence and emboldened leftist City Council’s calling for defunding and ending the police. In a sense, Dr Barbot’s flippant attitude towards police was a foreshadowing to what radical anti-police city officials unleashed to the general public, new progressive policies intent on destroying public safety and wrecking the morale of police officers.
Dr. Barbot concluded in her resignation letter: “Our experts are world renowned for their epidemiology, surveillance and response work. The city would be well served by having them at the strategic center of the response not in the background.”
