{"id":1415862,"date":"2022-04-02T08:02:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T12:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415862"},"modified":"2022-04-02T08:02:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T12:02:32","slug":"nypd-union-says-nyc-mayor-adams-vaccine-rollback-for-athletes-makes-mandate-arbitrary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nypd-union-says-nyc-mayor-adams-vaccine-rollback-for-athletes-makes-mandate-arbitrary\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD Union Says NYC Mayor Adams\u2019 Vaccine Rollback for Athletes Makes Mandate Arbitrary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnypd-union-says-nyc-mayor-adams-vaccine-rollback-for-athletes-makes-mandate-arbitrary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415862&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s largest police union claims Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 rollback of the vaccine mandate <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/24\/adams-exempts-athletes-performers-from-nyc-vaccine-mandate\/\">to allow unvaxxed performers and athletes, such as Kyrie Irving<\/a>, to play in NYC proves the mandate was arbitrary, new court papers say. <\/p>\n<p>The amended complaint, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday, argues Adams\u2019 carve-out undermines the basis for the mandate, which was instituted by his predecessor Bill de Blasio, and unvaxxed cops should not be fired. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf vaccine mandates are driven by public health as [NYC officials] claim, then the same changed circumstances (high vaccination rates across the City and steadily declining COVID-19 metrics) that [city officials] relied on to lift the mandate for some, including rich and famous workers, also require that the Vaccine Mandate, Guidance and Termination Requirement be lifted for the men and women in the NYPD who have worked to protect this City throughout the pandemic. Respondents cannot rationally draw public health lines based on an individual\u2019s perceived fame,\u201d lawyers for the Police Benevolent Association wrote. <\/p>\n<p>The challenge, <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2022\/04\/police-union-cites-kyrie-carveout-in-amended-suit-over-vax-mandate-00022373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which was first reported by Politico<\/a>, comes as some unvaccinated cops have received a denial for an exemption from the jab on medical or religious reasons and many others still await the city\u2019s final ruling, police sources have told The Post.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/nypd-police-officers.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>An NYPD union is speaking out as police officers face being pulled off the streets for not receiving the vaccine, while basketball players such as Kyrie Irving are given a pass. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The PBA declined to disclose how many unvaxxed cops remained on the job as they wait for their appeal ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD and City Hall did not return requests immediately for a similar tally. <\/p>\n<p>Adams has faced blowback for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/24\/unvaxxed-new-yorkers-blast-adams-exemptions-for-athletes\/\">lifting the mandate for a select few with many saying<\/a> it was a double standard. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/mayor-eric-adams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mayor-eric-adams.jpg\" alt=\"NYC mayor Adams\" class=\"wp-image-21750416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/mayor-eric-adams.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/mayor-eric-adams.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/mayor-eric-adams.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Mayor Adams recently gave an exception to the vaccine mandate for athletes and performers in NYC.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The union has used the criticism to make its case, citing NYC\u2019s former COVID-19 senior advisor, Dr. Jay Varma, saying \u201cBasically it sends a message that this is an arbitrary rule \u2013 that if you\u2019re rich enough and powerful enough and high profile enough, that you don\u2019t have to play by the same rules as everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move also caused a break between Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne E. Adams, who said she had \u201cserious concerns\u201d over the exemption after the city fired 1,400 recently hired public workers for failing to get the jab. The city council speaker\u2019s objections are also noted in the lawsuit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD\u2019s largest police union claims Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 rollback of the vaccine mandate to allow unvaxxed performers and athletes, such as Kyrie Irving, to play in NYC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}