Mayor Bloomberg said police used “terrible judgment†by showing cops “The Third Jihad,†a controversial documentary that portrays Muslims as hellbent on establishing a worldwide Islamic regime. Click below to read the rest of the story.
Bloomberg said neither he nor Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly were aware that it was being shown — and that once the city’s top cop found out, he put a stop to it.
Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, the NYPD’s top spokesman, said the film “was never authorized by the NYPD†and was aired when officers at a counterterrorism training session in Brooklyn were filling out paperwork during downtime.
When news of the airing first surfaced about a year ago, police said it had been mistakenly screened a “couple of times.â€
Browne said on Tuesday that police later learned that the film had been shown over a period of three months and that about 1,500 officers saw at least part of it “as they filled out paperwork or were on break from training.â€
