ATLANTA (Dec. 21, 2014) — The decision police officers made Saturday to turn their backs on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio during his visit at Woodhull Hospital to pay respects to two slain officers demonstrated an abuse of the public trust and powers granted upon them to the highest order. Further demonstrating the lack of discipline in the police force requiring prompt, immediate punitive action.

Each and every one of them should be summarily dismissed from the police force.

Their behavior of turning their backs on the Mayor was nothing more than rogue cops lashing out at authority. And when those entrusted with certain state powers, use their position as a forum to lash out, immediate action needs to be taken.

Wearing the uniform comes with it certain privileges and responsibilities. And clearly, those police officers do not deserve to wear the uniform any longer, and probably didn’t deserve to put it on in the first place. Especially when they are prepared to take matters into their own hands and lash out politically as they did.

Using that opportunity to voice their disapproval only exemplifies what’s been happening in the streets when kids, and unarmed citizens get killed by their hands.

A form of defiance in the highest form.

What’s next? Like at the hospital, the officers have demonstrated they are prepared to turn their backs in the face of authority in order to demonstrate their personal feelings and prejudices they may have at a situation, and here against an individual, the Mayor of all people.

And if they are prepared to turn their backs against the Mayor, they are prepared to turn their backs in the line of duty in some dark alley somewhere facing a lone black man in the corner when no cameras are around. That’s right.

What is next? Will those same back turning cops turn their backs at a critical moment when required to perform their duties, resulting in yet another injustice occurring on the street?

Will those cops turn their backs when they are required to follow criminal procedure, abide by the Constitution of the United States?

Will those cops turn their backs when having to provide backup to another cop who may not agree with their rogue political agenda while in uniform?

What happened at that hospital was a Serpico moment to the 10th degree. In plain view of the public, the media and national television.

Wearing the uniform comes with it sacrifice, discipline. Clearly these police officers demonstrated a lack of both of these inherent qualities.

They failed the responsibility that their public office requires them to demonstrate. Responsibilities which were transferred to them, entrusted upon them. Responsibilities to be faithfully administered when wearing the uniform.

As a person who wears the uniform in the military, it would be unheard of to see rows of Soldiers turning their backs on a visiting senior ranking member of their chain of command passing by. Disgust and repulsion. Those are the tastes left in one’s mouth after viewing the spectacle demonstrated by these volatile individuals.

The police officers who turned their backs on the Mayor are entrusted to use lethal force while performing their jobs. When they signed up for the job, they also understood they relinquished various individual freedoms in order to uphold a position in law enforcement.

They to an oath to uphold the laws in the state of New York and to follow the orders placed upon them from their chain of command. Much like that of military personnel under the President of the United States.

Imagine if the President visited Iraq and walked down an isle to reach a podium to give a speech about the war. Then, at that moment, Soldiers, in an act of retaliation and protest, turned their backs to him in defiance. Do you think for a minute those Soldiers would be permitted to continue to wear that uniform one second further?

The officers and those who encouraged them to retaliate and lash out during Mayor de Blasio’s visit should all be summarily dismissed from their jobs and never be able to hold a position wearing any uniform. They have thoughtfully betrayed the office and uniform they were entrusted to wear with full contempt and disrespect.

If there ever was a division between law enforcement, or the “Police” and members who serve in the military, this was it.