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Ed Mullins, Ex-Police Union Chief, Retires as Discipline Is Announced

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2021-11-05 00:00:00

The combative former president of a powerful New York City police union retired on Friday, the same day officials announced that he had been found guilty of two disciplinary charges and fined about $32,000 for violating rules governing the use of social media.

The former union president, Edward D. Mullins, avoided outright termination despite being found guilty of departmental infractions at two administrative trials that centered on messages he posted on Twitter last year.

In one of the messages, Mr. Mullins, the longtime leader of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, made public a police report involving Mayor Bill de Blasio’s daughter. In the others, Mr. Mullins used vulgar language to denigrate city officials.

The penalty imposed by the Police Department fell short of the firing sought by the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the city’s police watchdog. The department said the punishment was in the medium to upper range of the disciplinary action it could take and noted that it was all but impossible to prevent Mr. Mullins from collecting a pension.
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